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...Roosevelt had really touched the Axis' quick with his increasing and increasingly pointed measures to strengthen the Axis' great foe. It suggested even more strongly that the Axis had decided to take advantage of existing isolationist sentiment in the U. S. to divide and confuse the biggest "pluto-democracy," in order to slow up aid to Britain at a vital moment...
Also on the program is another Dr. Kildare picture which has no distinguishing features aside from a blast for socialized medicine that ought to put the entire membership of the A.M.A. in bed for a week. And finally there is Donald Duck and Pluto in a sequence on bathing which is by far the best thing on the program...
Strange are the characters Vox Pop has attracted to its mike. Faced with the problem of naming the Father of All Waters, Mrs. Vanderbilt, wife of Rhode Island's Governor, answered tersely: "Pluto." Among those it has interviewed Vox Pop includes Jock Scott, a Scot who has walked around Africa, the U. S. and Canada, and bared his heroic feet for Interviewer Johnson (see cut); Jim Moran, the sedulous wag who claimed he once sold an icebox to an Eskimo in Alaska. For Vox Pop Moran attempted to demonstrate that people could lose their inhibitions by throwing eggs into...
...temperature of Jupiter is about 220° below zero F., and the outer planets-Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto-are even colder, which eliminates them as harborers of life. Moreover the atmospheres of the big planets contain great quantities of ammonia and methane, which are poisonous to earthly organisms. These substances are rich in hydrogen, lightest of gases and hence the most likely to escape from a planet's gravitational pull. The big planets are massive enough still to retain most of their original hydrogen, hence the ammonia and methane. The young earth locked up some useful hydrogen in water...
Joan Fontaine's performance as the young Mrs. Winter provides a wholesome whiff of sincerity in an atmosphere laden with sleazy pluto-romanticism. The other characters--including grave, moustached Mr. Oliveir--are the stereotyped masks which haunt every unsuccessful attempt at fiction. Readers of Miss Dumaurier's novel will notice to their amusement that under Mr. Hays' jurisdiction a husband does not shoot his wife, and that villains do not get away with their crimes as if there were neither justice nor morals in Hollywood...