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...They Knew What They Wanted" is one of the most gripping films Hollywood has made recently. It handles old themes--love, jealousy, lust--in a straightforward, unaffected fashion that carries great conviction. Charles Laughton, as an Italian fruit-grower, and Carole Lombard, as a hash-house waitress, squeeze every bit of pathos and humor from their roles. William Gargan is a truly tragic figure as the villain of the piece, who ruins his own chances for happiness at the same time that he comes near to destroying the lives of those he loves most. Unlike the average Hollywood product, this...
...which sometimes washes out the energy of the mighty and floods the forces of the weak. Speaking of referees, what did you think of Red Friesell and his third consecutive stormy week? I certainly hope the poor fellow isn't a bundle of nerves by now and makes a hash out of the Harvard-Yale game...
Last week a hash of defense arithmetic confused the U. S. people. The Department of Commerce announced that the number of planes exported to Great Britain and Canada had dropped from 365 in August to 204 in September, causing dark conjectures that U. S. plane production had bogged down before it was well started. Yet Mr. Roosevelt talked big of ordering 12,000 more planes for the U. S., supplying 12,000 more to Great Britain-all in addition to the 33,000 already on order for delivery by April 1942. Moreover, the President proclaimed a new rule-of-thumb...
According to Republicans, an irresponsible New Deal, filled with treachery, fostered by corrupt bosses, was making hash of the defense program, dragging the country into war, bankruptcy, dictatorship. According to Democrats, Republicans recklessly and deliberately falsified the record, and Willkie was an evasive trickster, under the thumb of the most corrupting influence in U. S. politics today, the utilities. Examples of extreme partisan bitterness...
...King George emerging from the palace opposite. It was moving to learn that Venizelist officers disgraced in the revolt of 1935 had now pleaded to be sent to the front; and to learn that foreigners, especially Greek-Americans, were signing up: men like 36-year-old John Theotocki, a hash king from Kansas City, who said: "We cleaned up the gangsters in the United States and now we've got a tougher job here." But when the Athenians heard that the Italians had sent their bombers over other Greek cities, that Greek women and children had perished...