Word: hitchcocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mood for the action. Joan Fontaine brings you to the edge of your chair in the early scenes as she wanders nervously around the great mansion which is pervaded by the ever-lingering memory of her new husband's mysteriously drowned first-wife. The direction of Alfred Hitchcock very nearly matches up to "The 39 Steps" and "The Lady Vanishes," but the plot of "Rebecca" is not as ideally suited to his talent for sustained mystery. Too much coincidence detracts from the force of the plot, especially when the youthful heroine barely escapes being hypnotized into suicide by Rebecca...
ARETINO, SCOURGE OF PRINCES -Thomas Caldecot Chubb - Reynal & Hitchcock...
...Meter Dive: won by McCutcheon (H); second, Hart (Y); third Hitchcock (Y). 86.5 points...
...Wendell Holmeses (the author of Autocrat of the Breakfast Table and the Supreme Court Justice), Owen Wister, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, President Theodore Roosevelt (the Franklin Roosevelts go Fly Club). Among its living members are Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall, Congressman Hamilton Fish, Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Poloist Thomas Hitchcock Jr., U. S. Ambassador to Italy William Phillips, Journalist Joseph Alsop, and Richard Whitney, now of Sing Sing Prison, of whom all good Porkies prefer not to speak. The Pore is very much a family affair. Upon its roster, generation after generation, appear the same proud Boston names-Adams, Ames...
...AMERICAN EXODUS - Dorothea Lange & Paul Schuster Taylor-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.75). Subtitled A Record of Human Erosion, this volume tells in nonfiction, mainly in photographs, the grim story most famously told in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Some of the photographs are exceedingly good; some are merely "magnificent" - over-filtered, overdramatized. Even so, the whole selection considerably excels that in the Caldwell-Bourke-White collaboration, You Have Seen Their Faces, or in Archibald MacLeish's poem with photographs, Land of the Free. The text has dignity and is compactly informative. Many of the captions are direct quotations...