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...Back Street," with Charles Boyer and Margaret Sullavan, comes closer to achieving complete, continuous, sustained gloom than any picture that has ever left the studios of Hollywood. Never has there been less action, fewer laughs, or more tragedy packed into one movie. It deals with the life of a Kept Woman, a woman who Sacrifices for the Man She Loves, and who in the end loses Everything--Everything. What little comedy relief there is is rendered rather capably by Frank McHugh, but he appears so seldom that he seems completely out of place; and every time Margaret Sullavan looks...
...Senate (see p. 14). And as always in periods when the President is waiting upon Congress, rumors and speculations about his plans bubbled gaseously. There was little enough to go on. The President issued an optimistic report on U. S. steel production capacity that plunged New Dealers into deepest gloom (see p. 77). He delivered, in the course of a radio speech to the awards dinner of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (see p. 38), a ringing declaration on the importance of the Lend-Lease Bill to hemispheric defense. Through most of the week...
Last week the New Dealer plan appeared to be well under way. Around OPM was fear and gloom; production was beginning; but politics was being produced faster than ordnance (see p. 14). OPMites could see a nightmare vision of a day when Knudsen would be merely a wandering figurehead of good will, visiting factories and making Rotary luncheon talks; when Sidney Hillman would be a memo-writing figurehead, representing labor conciliation...
...many a critic of Tin Pan Alley, the bright side of B. M. I.-ASCAP bickering was the hope that disheartened common listeners might turn to serious music. More than offsetting this Ivory Tower optimism was the gloom of advertisers. Uncertain how the public was taking it all, they hoped their goods would not stagnate on their shelves. If that hope isn't realized, the war may end abruptly, since money will talk no matter what radio wants to sing...
...enormous black caverns, grimy, goggled pygmies crawled through the gloom, eating while they worked, shuffling home after their eight hours to their ugly homes in Duquesne, Clairton, Homestead, on the cliffs of Pittsburgh's South Side. The grimy little men and their doings were far less spectacular than the infernal mills. But if the men quit, so would the white-hot flow of steel...