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...British and U.S. journalism, there is no one quite like "The Bishop of Ottawa" (his colleagues' nickname). Sedate and reticent, a completely atypical newshawk, Charlie Bishop is Canada's acknowledged No. 1 reporter. Born in Bear River, N.S., he started reporting the news of his home town for a Digby, N.S. weekly at 14, landed a job on the Ottawa Citizen in 1897. The following year he was assigned to cover Parliament. He has been there ever since. He arrived in time for the debate over the sending of Canadian troops to fight in the Boer...
Miss Durbin sings a new song (Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year) and an old one (Always) unusually well, bears up well enough under her elementary dramatic burdens. So do Gene Kelly and Richard Whorf (as a newshawk). But Christmas Holiday, an unsubstantial little tragedy at best, runs through their fingers like no-soap in a bathtub...
Based on an idea of Dance-Mime Angna Enters', Lost Angel is a fable about a foundling who is adopted by a platoon of psychologists, given the name of Alpha, and crammed to the scalp with Chinese, sociology, polysyllables, pure reason. At six, Alpha runs into a sentimental newshawk who is appalled when she says, of his sheet, "Reactionary, isn't it?" He is shocked when he finds she knows no fairy tales, has no childish belief in magic. On a tour of Manhattan he shows her magic in a sandwich man whose shirt front lights...
...bright enough bits of authenticity to delight any director. Agnes Moorehead, under Dudley Nichols' direction, turns in a portrait of a Washington wolverine which is a blend of comic-strip and Daumier. Paul Stewart, rescued from expert portrayals of smooth crooks, makes a small part as a newshawk the best thing in Government Girl...
...conference the President was stiff, unsmiling. The morning papers had the text of an acrid exchange of letters between Mr. Roosevelt and his ex-Food Administrator, Chester Davis (TIME, July 5). The afternoons were ripe with the brand-new main bout between Vice President Wallace and Jesse Jones. One newshawk asked: Who was to blame for such bickering...