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Since You Went Away (Selznick-United Artists). The duck that hatched a swan was lucky compared to David Oliver Selznick. He hatched Gone With the Wind and has been trying to hatch another ever since. Last week he punctuated four pictureless years* with Since You Went Away, a marathon of home-front genre-filming. Sure enough, it was no Gone With the Wind. The Wind blew for four solid hours; Went goes on for ten minutes short of three. The Wind cost $4,000,000 to make; Went, a mere $2,400,000. The Wind was photographed in some...
...fields near a few houses, the station master and one porter were the sole attendants. A Daily Mirror photographer had gone to this suburb on this morning to get a spring picture of gamboling lambs. The lambs were shorn just before his arrival, so he returned, pictureless and disgruntled, to the station and was astonished to see the meeting of Molotov and Anthony Eden. Molotov smiled broadly as, grey-suited and hatless, he stepped from the train in a faint drizzle...