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...Girl Was Young (Gaumont British). Cinema's top man for melodrama is England's roly-poly, impish-eyed Director Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Secret Agent). Last year, flushed with cinema success and much hearty beef-eating, Director Hitchcock decided to try one of his thrillers against the placid background of the English countryside. Said he: "I want to commit murder amid babbling brooks." The result teams 18-year-old Nova Pilbeam and Play Actor Derrick de Marney in a melodramatic hodge-podge that lacks the vivid outlines and clear characterizations...
...IMPORTANCE OF LIVING-Lin Yutang-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...Upped Texas Cowboy Cecil Smith from a nine to a ten-goal (highest possible) handicap. Other ten-goalers: Tommy Hitchcock Jr., Stewart Iglehart...
Born also of political hopes, the World-Herald had enjoyed a brighter financial history when Henry Doorly became its publisher-by-marriage when his father-in-law died in 1934. Spare, high-principled Senator Gilbert Monell Hitchcock was one of the group of bankers and politicians who founded the World in 1885. After its merger with the Herald in 1889 he slowly bought out his flagging partners and whipped banker-creditors who tried to dictate the paper's policy. Under Senator Hitchcock the World-Herald became an influential organ of liberal Democracy, with William Jennings Bryan its editor...
Much credit for that World-Herald prosperity falls to Henry Doorly, who migrated from Barbados to Nebraska as a Union Pacific surveyor, married Margaret Hitchcock in 1903. As a reporter, Mr. Doorly kept his job only because he was the publisher's daughter's fiance, but he struck his stride as a want-ad salesman, quickly became advertising and then business manager. In nine years the paper was in the black and since 1912 has made money every year, multiplying enemies but losing no ground when it deserted staunch Senator Hitchcock's time-honored Democratic partisanship...