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...Star. In London, Amateur Actress Beryl Lund complained that she had been suspended from her government job on suspicion of being a Communist, after she had appeared in a play called What's Left...
...Foreign Affair (Paramount), which displays Marlene Dietrich, Jean Arthur and John Lund against the ruins of Berlin, is obviously intended as a light satirical comedy about victors & vanquished. Unlikely as it sounds, that could be done; done well, it could be salutary as well as entertaining. But Messrs. Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder are a little too clever and a lot too inhumane to bring it off much of the time...
Jean Arthur, a visiting Congresswoman is flabbergasted to find John Lund, an American captain, fraternizing with Marlene Dietrich, the ex-mistress of a fugitive top Nazi. As bad or worse, Miss Dietrich is going around scot free; she is even singing in a nightclub. Millard Mitchell, a levelheaded, wisecracking colonel, does his best to calm Miss Arthur down; but since she is falling for Captain Lund, she doesn't calm easily. At long last she comes to realize that the Army always has its reasons: Miss Dietrich is being used to smoke her jealous Nazi lover out of hiding...
...ersatz as Black Market. Miss Arthur used to have a nice knack for comedy; now & then it still clicks, but she leans more & more lazily on her famous woolly drawl and is forced, in this picture, into an embarrassing passage of whimsy involving a flustered retreat (from amorous John Lund) among filing cabinets, and a panicky recitation of Paul Revere's Ride. Millard Mitchell handles the smart cracks ably, but since the brightest and nastiest of them are delivered against the terrible backdrop of Germany's annihilated capital, their echoes go a little sour...
...time out to announce managerial selections for next season. Thomas B. McNulty '50, of Kirkland House and Delafield, Wisconsin, will get the varsity job, while positions of assistant manager and freshman manager will go respectively to Roy G. Clouse '50, of Lowell House and Columbus, Ohio, and Skiddy M. Lund '51, of Wigglesworth Hall and Boston...