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...splashiest and most exciting opening night in Federal Theatre history flocked jitterbugs, Nosey Parkers, Harlem, Cafe Society. To it also, with hands upon their apprehensive hearts, marched Gilbert & Sullivan diehards, to endure an hour and see injustice done. To it also-one of her rare first nights since her husband became President-went Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, brought the audience applauding to its feet as she sailed down the aisle...
Zippy comments like these on "People Who Matter'' have long been the highly marketable stock-in-trade of smart, nosey Inez Callaway Robb, who for the last ten years has been sticking pins into stuffed shirts as "Nancy Randolph'' of the world's biggest tabloid, Manhattan's daily News. This week blue-eyed Inez Robb, chic and peppy at 36 despite her greying hair, started on a brand new job as "roving reporter," covering U. S. and international high life for the rival New York Mirror and more than 100 other papers lined...
...Numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29, et ante). Mr. Hines was getting no more breaks than ambitious young Republican Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey could help. Highlight of the trial's third week was a detailed account of Defendant Hines's connections with the racket told by nosey State Witness George Weinberg...
...line gang boss on a railroad electrification job, tells the story in his own words-a wisecracking lineman's lingo in which an angry character "arcs," gets "hotter than a wet switch''; a nosey one gets "ideas his head ain't insulated for." Like the piano playing of the villain, the plot is as "complicated as a six-track interlocking," contains as many trick effects as an electrical exposition. But when Author Haines writes straight description of wiring a low tunnel, his story delivers useful power...
Fomenting its trade in India, the ring brings disgrace and death to a British colonel. With a gushy American heiress (Loretta Young) tagging along, his four stout sons-Beano (George Sanders), Nosey (David Niven), Stinky (Richard Greene) and Snigglefritz (William Henry) -set out from ancestral Saint John-cum-Leigh (pronounced Sinjin-comely) to un-smirch the escutcheon. Guided by Director John Ford (The Informer, The Lost Patrol), their juvenile, helter-skelter quest roams two hemispheres, seldom loses its bearings. By thrusting Hollywood's dreamiest-eyed glamor girl smack up against a methodical machine-gunning of a screaming mass...