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Much of the radio play's rapid improvisation and kidding is lost on the screen, but enough is left to carry the story. The fable itself, as scripted by Lewis Meltzer and Oscar Saul, is given new gentleness, meaning, sadness-the journalists are tougher, the scientists more cruel and smug. The use of Art Baker to play bleating Gabriel Heatter is a master stroke. But Alexander Hall's direction, less nimble than in Here Comes Mr. Jordan, fails to make these ingredients do more than crawl about. Almost never do they get up on their good points...
Died. Isaac Meltzer, fiftyish, known to thousands of U. S. tourists as the hyper-peppy U. S. newsboy at Paris' Café de la Paix, in winter at Cannes and Nice; by leaping from the window of the Paris office of the New York Times...
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Dealing with the story of an American woman who predominates a roll in the hay with Lord Howe so that Washington's troops may receive support and retreat, Lewis Meltzer's play meanders through two dull acts, rears its head for a final gasp in the third, and then dies a miserable death...
Awards totalling $10,800 were announced over the weekend at the Law School, Medical School, and School of Education for 1937-38. Law School Faculty Scholarship will go to Paul W. Lukenheimer, of Philadelphia, while four Chicagoans, Charles A. Bane, Raoul Berger, Maxwell Cohen, and Bernard Meltzer and B. Palmer King, of Lincoln, Nobraska, will receive Research Fellowships...