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...expert and housemother. Ingrid Bergman would prefer not to be photographed unless Colby is on hand. Jennifer Jones thinks twice about blowing her nose without reporting to Colby. Inde pendent of Publicity Chief Don King, she works closely with Selznick, handling all deals public and personal which call for grade-A finesse. Her social and journalistic contacts in both New York and Hollywood are peerless; she calls Winchell Walter and Lyons Lennie. To all the people on earth who most matter to David Selznick, she is an indispensable one-woman pipeline...
Dark Waters (United Artists) has all the makings of a first-class thriller and now & then seems likely to become one. But the grade-A eggs it breaks never quite make an omelet...
Scotsmen Don't Kick. Religion, politics and arson (dangerous subject) are taboo for the program's joke-making, but everything else, within the bounds of reasonable taste, goes. Hershfield, who is also a columnist (New York Daily Mirror) and cartoonist (Desperate Desmond), and Donald are grade-A dialect storytellers. This talent usually arouses protests from the nationality they have outraged. But Scotsmen never protest. During 1943 the favorite type of joke sent in by contestants has been that known as "moron." Sample: "Have you any children?" "Un happily, no." "That's too bad. I wanted...
...such humanity in his mere presence that his acting is neither here nor there. Fats Waller & Band, richly aided, tonsils and all, by Singer Ada Brown produce a blues in a Beale Street joint which, if it inevitably falls short of absolute genuineness, is a fine restoration by Grade-A archeologists. The dancing Nicholas Brothers, younger and more agile by some decades than the great Robinson, stage a volcanic family eruption...
...Gardner's in dignities are delivered with a kazoo-voiced good nature which keeps everybody happy, including his victims. Three writers turn out the original script, but the final version is practically all Gardner ("The boys do a rough draft and I tear it down"). The result is grade-A American foolery...