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...holds the advantage in a race between a quad and a four is a mute point. The variables: the efficiency of four oarsmen plying eight oars versus that of four oarsmen plying four; the speed and power derived from eight short oars versus that of four slightly longer oars; and the stability of a quad where the oarsmen are kept in balance by an equal and straight pull of both arms versus the tendency to roll that is always present in fours and eights...
...Kiss in the Dark (Warner) is a daffy romantic comedy apparently intended to prove that 1948 Oscar-winning Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda) is not really a deaf-mute. It is the romance of Jane, a photographer's model, and David Niven, a wealthy pianist, who owns the Manhattan apartment house where she lives...
...Treasure of the Sierra Madre brought three awards to one family: two to John Huston, for his direction and screen play, and one to his father, Walter Huston, for the best male supporting performance, as Treasure's garrulous old roustabout prospector. Jane Wyman, the deaf-mute of Warner's Johnny Belinda, was named the year's best actress. Claire Trevor got an Oscar for the best supporting performance by an actress, in the Huston-directed Key Largo. Bustling Warner Producer Jerry Wald got the Irving Thalberg Award for "top achievement in production...
...pair tells it, a 3 a.m. awakening found Copey even more irascible than he was in class. "Boys, go away," he growled. The crestfallen postulants departed, but they left the stein on his doorstep "as a mute offering of respect and friendship...
Both pictures are notable for fine acting performances. Jane Wyman, as a deaf-mute in a rugged seacoast town, has already received a garden of critical orchids. Walter Houston, as the old prospector leading two hot young bloods to a fortune in gold, creates a wonderful character who dances at the sight of gold dust...