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...BALLAD AND THE SOURCE-Rosamond Lehmann-Reynal & Hitchcock...
DIRECTOR ALFRED HITCHCOCK IS A BRITISH UPSTART WITH NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLLYWOOD LANGUAGE [TIME, DEC. 18]. THE THING THE HERO CHASES IS NOT A MCGUFFIN, BUT A WENIE AND HAS BEEN EVER SINCE THE DAYS OF MACK SENNETT. THE STOLEN PEARLS WERE PLACED IN A WENIE. THE WENIE WAS STOLEN BY A DOG. AND THE DOG WAS CHASED BY EVERYONE INCLUDING THE KEYSTONE COPS. THEY ARE STILL CHASING...
...present he is probably the most drawn-&-quartered property in cinema. His contracts call for one film a year for Fox, one for M.G.M., two each, over a four-year period, for Casey Robinson, Selznick and RKO. He has already finished Selznick's Spellbound with Bergman, directed by Hitchcock, and Metro's Valley of Decision, with Garson, directed by Garnett...
...With no more paper available for Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit (500,000 copies), Reynal & Hitchcock are now issuing red and green certificates, at $2.75 each, entitling the holder to a copy early in 1945. In the first three weeks, bookstores ordered 6,000 certificates...
...means original with Hitchcock, the McGuffin is a hoary British joke about a parcel-toting man on a train meeting another man, who inquires...