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Milton Beric, who plays publicity man for Glenn's band, is almost, but not quite, as funny as he tries (hard) to be. Glenn Miller makes up for his dead-pan acting with some hit-paraders. The second feature, "Parachute Battalion," is a respectable thriller and filler...
...better traction. The 15% solution of calcium chloride in water will not freeze above -20°, reduces bouncing and sidewall buckling, requires little care because water will not diffuse through an inner tube as air does. The liquid distributes pressure to all parts of the tire, unlike a solid filler. The tire was developed by Goodyear, is not yet on the market...
...first time that the powers that be have acknowledged him to be less than 170, although it has been rumored consistently that he scales less than 165. He makes up with a perfection of style for what he lacks in "beef," and has certainly proved a proficient filler of the rowing socks left empty by Fluff Stevens, the 1940 captain...
Standard Hollywood practice would have been to convert "Kitty Foyle," Christopher Morley's "natural history of a woman," into an innocuous boy-meets-girl romance. The verboten questions of social caste and childbirth out of wedlock might have been replaced by sticky sentimentality and irrelevant filler scenes. Ginger Rogers could have devoted her talents to singing and dancing rather than to acting. But, with unusual regard for Morley's novel, the producers of "Kitty Foyle" brought this cross section of a white collar girl's emotions to the screen with almost all its original insight and realism...
...State line, could say he was manufacturing in the other State if anyone asked for his license. Now his company has two subsidiaries, turns out a variety of products: compounds to waterproof wooden wagon wheels, oil to keep posters from warping, oils for paints and duplicator inks, a shoe filler (0. E.'s only patent) used by Florsheim to replace felt, an oil compound that gives transparency to one-piece window envelopes, etc. Small but sound, Scientific boasts a record free from layoffs, pay cuts, labor trouble. In its last published statement (1936) it reported earning...