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...wise Cameraman Elwood Bredell, invests this grade-B plot with a lot of style and scare. Some of the dialogue is ham, and toward the end the picture's edginess blunts noticeably. But the bar and bartender, the damp night streets, a late-night elevated platform, and a jam session that looks like an expressionistic death dance, have a good deal of Hitchcock's sinister melo-realistic melancholy...
...Aklavik, dinner tables groan under inch-thick steaks (reindeer and caribou), heaping mounds of butter, jam, other war-scarce delicacies. Aklavik women, most of them Eskimos and Leacheau Indians, have all the silk stockings they need, can frequently be heard mildly bewailing "the third pair I've ruined this week." All sorts of consumer goods are available...
...side, small Western Pacific led all the rest. With its main line from Salt Lake City to San Francisco jam-packed with shipments to the Pacific war zone, profits rocketed to $15,205,421, two and a half times those of 1942 and 22 times those of 1941. Against this, the rise in New York Central earnings to $62,729,230 v. $49,082,182 in 1942 seemed comparatively modest, and the sharp drop in Pennsylvania profits to $85,500,000 ($101,468,792 in 1942) seemed almost poor...
Continuing its series of Sunday afternoon jazz concerts at the Copley Square Hotel's Hopscotch Room, the Harvard Jazz Club will present Frankie Newton. Al Morgan, and Joe Brown this Sunday at 3 o'clock. Newton was heard at two previous jam sessions last summar, and has been leading his band, including letter Young and Eddie Barefield, at various places in New York since then...
...Christmas. He visited the school to see how his kids were making out; the teacher made him tell an assembly about "life in the desert." On his last night the family had a feast of roast lamb, boiled potatoes, cabbage, Queen's pudding-a spongy affair with jam...