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...classics and near-classics translate rather stodgily to the screen, no matter how faithful the adaptation. Oscar Wilde's famed and fancy morality legend is an exception. Its epigrams speak even more sharply than they read, and its dramatic essence is vividly visual. But though Writer-Director Albert Lewin, who also did The Moon and Sixpence (TIME, Oct. 19, 1942) deserves respect for a notably hard try, and though his Picture has some elegance, interest and excitement, it falls far short of what it should have been...
There is a laudable attempt, within M.G.M.'s rather narrow limits, to treat the story realistically rather than as fantasy. Adapter Lewin has been generally discreet in his emendations of the novel. Much of the book's swishiness profitably disappears; most of the still more embarrassing purple patches have been unstitched from the fabric...
First director of the U.S. glider program was Major Lewin B. Barringer, who was lost in a bomber over the Caribbean last January. Last week the Army called in a civilian expert, Richard C. du Pont (of the Delaware Du Ponts), pioneer sailplane pilot, to take full charge of glider production and training...
...high-colored tale in a series of flashbacks narrated by an author (in the picture, Herbert Marshall), a doctor (Albert Bassermann) and others who knew the great man. The device worked out well enough in print. On the screen it is all but disastrous-especially since Adaptor-Director Albert Lewin has Maugham's book read, obbligato, almost word for word. The reading is excellent, but it freezes the action into little more than a set of magic-lantern slides...
...gliders. By summer's end, the Navy had contracted for 14 experimental gliders, including four to carry troops. A score of Army pilots had entered glider training. Marines were training glider troops, flyers and ground crews. Last September a prominent U.S. gliderman, Philadelphia's lanky, shy Lewin B. Barringer, was appointed civilian director of the Army's training program...