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Crown Prince Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia, eagle-faced eldest of Ibn Saud's 40-odd sons, got an eagle's-eye view of Manhattan. In the city on a coast-to-coast tour, the Prince played the tourist to the hilt-hustled straight from the Pennsylvania Railroad Station to the Empire State Building for an educational gape. Manhattan gaped, too: with the Prince was a retinue of protectors hung with cartridge belts, golden swords, and jeweled daggers...
Starred in the dual plot of the John Fletcher comedy were Francis MacNutt and Seabury Quinn. While neither could by any means be said to have given a remarkable performance, they both played the rather slight material to the hilt, aiding the general effect of making a live comedy out of what could have sounded like a misplaced textbook. Anna Prince and Elaine Limpert took the corresponding female roles with a corresponding gusto, while Cathleen O'Conor emerged from a secondary part with the only really polished performance of the evening...
...where Candidate Dutra denied all, the newspapers played the story to the hilt. But, editorially, the press took the revelation with a grain of salt. Said the Government-owned A Noite: "Oswaldo Aranha, tired of making history, is now inclined to narrate history, and because of the fire of his temperament and the luxury of his imagination, places himself in the center of the stage...
Moreover, the picture is a Thespian witches' Sabbath. Except when she overuses her eyes in fey moments, Jennifer Jones more than delivers on the promise of her Song of Bernadette. Restrained Joseph Gotten gives the film its needed ballast of sanity. Hilt-deep supporting performances are contributed by Gladys Cooper, Cecil Kellaway, and a brilliant Australian named Ann Richards. She has three-alarm beauty and four-alarm talent, and is the only screen actress since Ingrid Bergman to look wonderful in a shirtwaist...
...salutes were exchanged as the Japanese Deputy Chief of Staff in China, Major General Takeo Imai, his gloved hand resting on the jeweled hilt of his oversize samurai sword, stepped stiffly into a Chinese Army jeep. His six aides and their luggage (briefcases, tins of tea, fruit juices, U.S. crabmeat) followed...