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...waiting for them to cook or jell. On the air, Mrs. Lucas does it all over again, explaining her tricks in a no-monkey-business British accent. Her principal television bugbear is common to every kitchen: how to get everything ready at the right moment. Sometimes she has to gloss over the end of her TV bill of fare in a hurry; again, she may have to ad-lib with her eggbeater, in order to fill out the half-hour. "Food is alive," she says. "You never know how it will...
...wanted a synthetic starch that would come bottled, ready for use, and make starching as simple as washing. Since Perfex had no research staff, it laid the problem in the lap of Kansas City's Midwest Research Institute. Six weeks later, Midwest's chemists came up with "Gloss Tex." Perfex is now busy shipping hundreds of barrels of this new synthetic starch...
...same thick, brilliant gloss is spread over the characters and their emotions. The boy Jody is well played by a twelve-year-old Tennessee schoolboy named Claude Jarman Jr. His father, Penny Baxter (described by Novelist Rawlings as a scrawny, narrow-shouldered runt), is acted with clean competence-a mite too clean -by handsome Gregory Peck, 6ft. 3 in. Glum, discouraged Ma Baxter is impersonated with affecting skill by Jane Wyman, whose talents have been wasted for years by Warner Bros, in pert ingénue roles. But even in scrubbed, unlipsticked make-up Miss Wyman's trim face...
Nocturne (RKO Radio), featuring George Raft as a deadpan detective, gets by in a superB way, but it will add no gloss to Producer Joan Harrison's shiny reputation (Phantom Lady, Uncle Harry...
...entire operation is painless enough, now & then funny. Bing sings a few songs; Hope clowns and rolls his eyes at Dotty; the late Robert Benchley breaks in from time to time to put a gloss on the frozen custard-pie humor...