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...corner saloon and professional wrestling in the old days, the seven-member Federal Communications Commission had long been a man's affair. But last week it, too, succumbed. Beamed FCC Chairman Wayne Coy: "We've had rectitude, fortitude, and solemnitude, but never before pulchritude." Thereupon pulchritudinous Frieda Hennock, successful Manhattan lawyer and active Democrat, was sworn in as the 24th commissioner in FCC's 14 years...
...First. The Federal Communications Commission prepared to receive its first woman member: blonde, 43-year-old Frieda B. Hennock, a Manhattan corporation lawyer, who was named last week by President Truman -to succeed Commissioner Clifford J. Durr, who resigned. (She still has to be confirmed by the Senate.) Polish-born, Bronx-bred Miss Hennock was the youngest woman (21) ever admitted to the New York bar. A graduate of Brooklyn Law School, she hopes to represent the women who "comprise radio's biggest audience...
Perhaps the two least good performances were those of Ralph Forbes and Frieda Inescort as Mr. and Mrs. Crampton-Clandon. Miss Inescort was so overshadowed by Miss Brook, as her daughter, that the moral force of her character never became quite so overwhelming as it should have. Forbes' portrayal of the blustering father was understanding, but at times slightly forced. In smaller character parts Walter Hudd was entertainly fusty as McComas, and William Devlin added a real touch to the last act with his Jovian portrayal of the positive ("You will, you don't think you will, but you will...
...aura of hostility greets Frieda when she arrives in Denfield before the war has even ended. Miss Robson as Aunt Nora, a "cold, logical woman," realizes that her chances to gain a seat in the House of Commons are ruined if she condones her nephew's marriage to a German. Publically she proclaims that all Germans are alike and thus voices the belief of most others as well. But privately she tells Frieda that in six months nine-tenths of the community would come to accept her but there would always be the other tenth...
Nora's prediction of social acceptance comes true but Frieda's true feelings still are not evident and only become so when her brother, an-unrecalcitrant Nazi, appears on the scene. His fanatical sentiments for a united German people and a repetition of the last war "again, and again, and again" are rejected by her along with the swastika medallion he presses into her palm. That is why she tries to commit suicide when her husband believes she must be a Nazi at heart upon learning her brother's beliefs. It is then that Aunt Nora realizes she cannot...