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Jacobowsky and the Colonel (adapted by S. N. Behrman from a play by Franz Werfel; produced by the Theater Guild in association with Jack H. Skirball) uses one of the grimmest moments of the war-the fall of France-for half-satiric, half-fantastic comedy. Its comic thesis is that flight from the Nazis makes strange carfellows. A swaggering, snooty Polish colonel with "a perfect 15th-Century mind" (well played by Louis Calhern) and a rueful, humorous, clever Jewish refugee (delightfully played by Oscar Karlweis) both have to bolt from Paris on the run. The colonel cannot find...
...herself Annabella made me so spiritually ill last night that you can stop, right now, if you want to. . . . In my whole life (I give you my word) I have never seen or heard an actress botch up good lines as badly." Next day, with knightly gallantry, the Theatre Guild ran an ad in the World-Telly headed "Here's to Annabella from 15 Drama Critics." For her performance, the 15 had showered on her such words as "charm," "sparkle," "warmth," "appealing," "delightful," "fresh as a breeze...
...Manhattan's Theatre Guild recently had a cable from George Bernard Shaw reading: "The answer is no, absolutely no." The Guild is still wondering why. Last time it addressed an inquiry to Shaw...
...Besides her salary from Hearst, an estimated $750-$1,000 a week, she has been in a position to do nicely on the side, with Hearst getting one-third of the take. Radio used to bring her as high as $2,500 a week until the Screen Actors' Guild, thanks to James Cagney, made it impossible for stars to appear on Louella's programs with no reward other than Louella's love and unflagging loyalty-or her equally unflagging enmity if they said no. She got $50,000 from Warners for her appearance in Hollywood Hotel...
...naming Griffin, who has been a Bishop only five years, His Holiness skipped over 19 other prelates. The Pope was looking ahead: like the Anglican Church's leader, William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Mgr. Griffin is a liberal on social questions. A leader in the progressive Catholic Social Guild, he has backed Sir William Henry Beveridge's postwar Social Security plan: "We need it. We want to get it going as soon as possible...