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...Cinema, hot, humid and jampacked with soldiers. Britain's former Ambassador to Russia and next Ambassador to the U.S. stepped up to the speaker's stand. First he tried to pour himself a drink, but the cap on the bottle stuck. Next he asked for a reading lamp. It was brought, minus a shade. Sir Archibald borrowed a beret from an officer in the first row and placed it jauntily over the light. Then he began...
...special envoy hurried away, the speaker's lamp started burning a hole through the lampshade beret...
Industrial reconstruction is even farther behind. Last week U.S. reporters visited Minsk and saw there a sample of how things were. The new power plant could supply more current than Minsk used before the war. But few Minsk streets are lighted: enough iron for lamp posts, wire for circuits and bulbs for lighting are not to be had. Even public buildings are dark. Though Minsk has power to burn, factories that might consume it cannot get building materials, transport or machines...
...President climbs obediently onto this contraption, puts his feet into straps, and, grunting as loudly as any man, bends down twelve times to touch his toes. This done, he splashes up & down the pool with his friends, comes out puffing, catches his breath while sitting under a sun lamp...
Audiences will not be in much suspense, but they may stay interested just wondering what the dimwitted, unprincipled characters will think of next. They think of a good many things, mostly criminal. Almost as soon as Edward G. Robinson spots Joan Bennett underneath a street lamp, cinemaddicts will be able to predict the general course of events, right up to the final shriek. By the time Robinson tries to hang himself from the light fixture of a cheap hotel room, most audiences may be sick & tired of all the scheming characters and their doomed, impractical schemes...