Word: havoc
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Almost equaling their runaway in the mud against Boston College two weeks ago, Crimson contestants took first in ten of the 16 events. Rain wreaked havoc, as usual, with weight and field marks, but the mire that bogged down the visitors didn't seem to bother Harvard runners...
Unfortunately this sort of vehicle plays havoc with the amateur talent recruited from the fishing people of Stromboli. While Bergman ably throws herself about sobbing "I'm going mad," the rest of the east don't quite know how to play roles requiring emotions they themselves have never experienced...
This Is Show Business (Sun. 7:30 p.m., CBS-TV). Panel with George S. Kaufman, Clifton Fadiman and Abe Burrows. Guest: June Havoc...
...tennis match. All the same, the film has moments of hard cynicism. The credibly forlorn scenes between the heroine and her brother (Arthur Kennedy) barely suggest a relationship that the Johnston Office might have scrutinized more closely. And Ladd's scenes with a cold and seedy blonde (June Havoc) show a consistent disconcern with what Hollywood knows as real love. Trying for and missing the punch of Double Indemnity, waltz-paced Deadline is further debilitated by Ladd's paralyzed imitation of Alan Ladd...
...June Havoc is surprisingly good as the dead girl's showgirl friend; Alan Ladd and Donna Reed are unsurprisingly mediocre, but no one would go to the movies to see them, anyhow. "Chicago Deadline" is not the sort of picture you'd go out of your way to see; but once inside, you won't walk out, either...