Word: finish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night Song (RKO Radio) takes the cake, or most of the frosting anyhow, for fancy plot. A rich San Francisco music lover (Merle Oberon) decides that what poor, blind, bitter Composer Dana Andrews needs, if he is ever to finish his concerto, is the love of a girl whom he can't feel is pitying him. She pretends to be blind and poor; Dana falls for her, and his genius starts boiling...
There are several easy-hearted songs, some lines as quietly wicked as an icepick stab, and a few fine jokes. Good joke: at one point, Hope enthusiastically explains the rest of the picture: they'll Get-The-Papers and Stop-the-Marriage; "Boy, what a finish!" There is a frightful offscreen growling that sounds like a couple of nauseated tigers. Crosby, disconcerted: "What was that?" Hope, casually: "Oh, just the Warner Brothers; they're terribly jealous...
...last to finish his part of the project was Robert Chapin, whose department was responsible for the accompanying charts. The difficulty of getting year-end figures and of converting commodity exports to metric tons, etc. held Chapin up until 24 hours before his deadline. His department worked practically around the clock illustrating the significant phases of the story which could best be told with charts. Thanks to a break in the wintry weather, copies for the engravers arrived at TIME'S three printing plants on schedule...
...born 30-odd years ago in the Spanish town of Albacete. He married young, went to Madrid and studied to be a schoolteacher. Too poor to finish his courses, he became a construction worker, unionist, extreme leftist. In the Civil War, he fought on the Ebro, had a big chunk shot out of his back. He went to Mexico, worked for the Spanish Republican exiles. After World War II, he slipped back into Spain, became a key Communist organizer...
From this Daliesque debacle, Speculator Khapuga last week made a fabulous recovery. "But," said Leningrad's Pravda, "we will finish...