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...Calcutta (A Wind Is Rising), a U.S. newspaperman is tormented by the same white man's burden of guilt that weighs down all Shaplen's central characters. Archer Grayson watches an outbreak of Hindu-Moslem rioting and knows, "with a terrified shame, that he had been waiting for this to happen." When Archer gets in the way of a murderous mob, his death is a kind of anguished moral suicide. Author Shaplen as much as tells the readers: hate and violence anywhere are the concern of all decent men; they can be observed with indifference only...
...pokes some good-humored fun at the buskin-and-bluster heroes of costume melodrama. The picture itself is only a costume piece, with a little vaudeville thrown in. Its best features are the broad comedy by J. Carroll Naish, the sentimental songs sung by Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson, and some lively Spanish dances...
Producer Joe Pasternak was wise enough not to ride this little gag too hard. He has allowed time for enough moon-spoon-swoon songs to please the most ardent Sinatra fans. Kathryn Grayson occasionally joins in, and gives the love lyrics a wholesome quality of antiseptic passion...
John Roosevelt, 31-year-old youngest of F.D.R.'s five, was coming right along. After nearly two years with Grayson's clothing stores in California, he announced that he was about to open his own women's ready-to-wear business...
Groundwork. In Shullsburg, Wis., Grayson McNaughton forgot he was digging a basement for his new house but kept right on with his spadework when he hit a vein of lead ore worth...