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...Executive Committee: Henry P. Fletcher, Ferric C. Galpin, M. Preston Goodfellow, Herbert Hoover, Richard W. Lawrence, Chauncey Mc-Cormick, Dave Hennen Morris, Maurice Pate, Edgar Rickard, Lewis L. Strauss, W. Hallam Tuck, Allen Wardwell. - Lars Moen, an American chemist who was caught in Belgium by the Blitzkrieg, reported in his recent book Under the Iron Heel (Lippincott; $2.75) that scores of Belgians told him "perhaps the major" share of food sent from the U. S. to Belgium during World War I was diverted to feed the Germans...
...juiciest plums in town is the $35,000-a-year presidency of Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, which fell vacant last month. Jesse already had the nucleus of a good organization built around Cummings (a Reserve Bank director) and First Vice President Howard Payne Preston, an RFC alumnus. For president he wanted his present RFC head, Emil Schram...
...Preston Sturges has had more ballyhoo lately than Dietrich's legs or any other stock Hollywood commodity. He is the one man out there who can write, direct, and show his charges how to act out a movie. His latest and best personal triumph is "The Lady Eve," as insinuating a farce as has ever decked a Boston screen...
...Lady Eve (Paramount) is Writer-Director Preston Sturges' third straight comedy hit (following The Great McGinty, Christmas in July). It displays a complete set of highly original box-office wiles from the opening moment when a cartooned snake wriggles down the title and gets stuck trying to crawl through the O in Sturges' first name. The picture returns the lately heavily dramatic Barbara Stanwyck to glamor, with 25 swank costume changes, and reveals homespun Henry Fonda, with a drawing room haircut and 14 sound tailoring jobs, as one of the screen's most socially eligible juveniles...
...tempting a policeman from his post during an Indian rebellion. Shot in technicolor, Paulette is more enervating than the Redskins, a little bolder than the Queen's bravest, and occasionally almost as bare as the northern crags. Texan Gary Cooper plays Texan Gary Cooper as well as always, and Preston Foster gives a convincing performance as a tough Mountie sergeant. But what really raises the show to the shouldn't-be-missed list are minor roles filled by such veterans as Akim Tamiroff, Lynne Overman, and Lon Chaney Jr. as Canadian cowboys and Walter Hampden as an Indian chief. Amongst...