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...Beloved Returns," based on an episode in the life of Goethe, is: 1. A new novel by Thomas Mann. 2. A movie with Paul Muni now in production. 3. An anti-war play by Robert Sherwood. 4. A fabulous mural painted for Hitler's study. 5. A bedroom farce doing a big business in London...
...course of its existence, the Radio Theatre has aired 272 different shows, ranging from Peg O' My Heart to the Life of Louis Pasteur. As an aerial Pasteur, Paul Muni was so nervous that he couldn't face a mike until a messenger was sent to his home for a violin. After sawing quietly away for a few minutes, Muni got a grip on himself, went through his act without a hitch. Another mike-fever victim was pop-eyed Joan Crawford, who was so scared during her first performance that she had to remain seated through...
...Marx Brothers bouncing around on one stage, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy trilling to one another near by. Warner Brothers pigeonholed their artistic aspirations by canceling Paul Muni's contract, concentrating on such slam-bang hell-raisers as Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield...
...industry to its foundations. Big John winds up in the dock facing a Sherman Anti-Trust suit. It looks bad for Big John until Square John repents, takes the witness stand to score on Uncle Sam in the most shameless courtroom bid for an Oscar since Paul Muni's blow for liberty in Zola. At this point Gable redeems himself with the first sensible line in the show. Says he: "I didn't know he had so much...
Following rather closely the lines laid down by "The Life of Louis Pasteur," Warner's latest burst of social consciousness depicts Dr. Ehrlich's battle against microbes and pig-headed colleagues. It is especially fortunate that Edward G. Robinson was not so completely bowled over by Muni's characterization of Pasteur as to model his own Dr. Ehrlich after him, for a Robinson wiggling his eyebrows and flapping his hands a la Muni would have presented a sad caricature of both Messrs. Muni and Ehrlich. But Robinson steers clear of the trodden path and creates a character...