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MADAME CURIE (Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon; TIME...
...Prejudice was a harmless excursion into literature, but in the Garson career it was a round trip. Blossoms in the Dust at least surrounded Miss Garson with children, though they were other people's, and illegitimate, to boot. More important, it first mated this predestined dove with Walter Pidgeon. Blossoms was Miss Garson's first real hit as a leading lady. But where Blossoms fumbled for the Garson beam, Mrs. Miniver found it, and rode it into box-office history. Random Harvest rode it right out of the park...
Several of the new magnesium makers (Ford among them) use the little-known ferrosilicon process developed by Canada's Lloyd Montgomery Pidgeon. Requiring minimum plant-construction time, the Pidgeon process has been recommended by the National Academy of Sciences as promising the quickest yield with the least risk. Unlike electrolytic methods, it does not require great power. Since it uses dolomite (magnesium-calcium carbonate, one of the most plentiful limestones), plants can be almost anywhere...
...Walter Pidgeon plays the short-tempered, sex-proof overseer of an African rubber plantation, whose greatest problems are monotonous isolation and attempts to keep an assistant at the jungle outpost for longer than six months. The film begins with the arrival of a new assistant (Richard Carlson), whose many good intentions are soon destroyed by the dry rot and the charms of scheming Tondelayo (Lamarr). As soon as Carlson starts laying in "many silks and bangles" for the gold digging Tondelayo his days are numbered, but before he returns to civilization with a good case of malaria he manages...
...nominate Leon Gordon's resurrection of "White Cargo" in movie form as one of the year's foremost blunders. Although a well-handled advertising campaign may give this production large box office receipts, it can do little to repair the damage done to the acting prestige of Walter Pidgeon, Richard Carlson, and Hedy Lamarr. These three are the victims of a plot and setting as hackneyed as any the film industry has seen...