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AUTHOR THOMAS MANN: "I believe that man is meant as a great experiment whose possible failure of man's own guilt would be paramount to the failure of creation itself...
...already overloaded bandwagon pulled to a groaning stop in front of the Paramount theatre this week to let The Turning Point show us how a professor named John Conroy would have handled the Kefauver Committee. In the process another unnamed, though typically midwestern city is purged of its civic bruises by the two fisted Conroy Crime Committee...
This week, with a driving white drummer and a trumpeter whose favorite range is up with the piccolos, the Duke is raising the roof at Manhattan's Paramount Theater, and later this month he will display his latest style at Carnegie Hall. He no longer has a musical home like the Cotton Club; when the anniversary date rolls around, he will be barnstorming in Iowa. As for all the anniversary excitement among his fans, the Duke, a reserved fellow, smiles and says, "Well, yes, I guess I have been taking a few extra bows lately...
...Savage (Paramount) considers the predicament of a white boy adopted by Sioux Indians. In time, the youth grows up to be a handsome brave named Warbonnet (Charlton Heston). When his foster father Chief Yellow Eagle goes to war with the white men, Warbonnet's loyalties are naturally torn. Matters become even more complicated when Warbonnet falls in love with a white girl (Susan Morrow...
...Turning Point (Paramount) dramatizes a timely subject: a crime-investigating committee, complete with television coverage. The picture's plot is less up to date: a hard-hitting attorney (Edmond O'Brien), in the course of investigating a big-city crime syndicate, discovers that his policeman father (Tom Tully) is mixed up with the gangsters. Further complications set in when O'Brien's chum, Reporter William Holden, falls in love with the attorney's girl friend (Alexis...