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...amphibious force under Admiral William Frederick Halsey, also 60. Burly General Vogel carries the most notable bay window in the Marine Corps, yet he has been known to wear the breath out of younger, slim-waisted officers. A strict disciplinarian in the field, Barney Vogel is an inveterate party goer and party giver-a combination of inclinations usually not found in the Marine Corps. Experience gained in the jungles of Nicaragua and the mountains of Haiti should serve him well in the approaches north of Guadalcanal...
...summary of the plot would spoil it for the future goer, for the picture depends in good part on the delicate intricacies of character development and twists of sequence for its effectiveness. Admittedly, the story runs exceptionally long and could stand some judicious cutting, but only for a few moments toward the end does it drag noticeably...
...photographed pictures of the last few years. Wendy Hiller as Major Barbara, Robert Morley as Andrew Underschaft, and a newcomer named Robert Newton as Bill Walker, the tough mug who turns a leaf, all turn in brilliant performances. Here at last is a picture which credits the average movie-goer with more brains than a fourteen-year-old, and even if it is often too subtle and confusing. "Major Barbara" may be set down as a major achievement of British motion pictures. Hollywood please note...
...habit of going to movies. Chief reason : they get married, have babies, and spend more time at home. Ace cinemaddicts are 19-year-olds, who buy some 2,080,000 tickets weekly. Laggard are those over 30, who give the box office just 35% of its take. Typical movie goer is 27 years old, earning $28 a week...
...Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel last week, 1,302 members of the American Society of Bakery Engineers held a convention which would have convinced many a veteran convention-goer that he had come down with the d.t.s. No salesmen of bakers' equipment set up bars to dispense alcoholic cheer. Toasts were drunk in tomato juice. Even at the biggest banquet the 30 men at the speakers' table decorously drank cocktails of milk, without even a spot of gin to take away a taste abhorred by most convention guests...