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...lecture hall was Surabaya's Rex Cinema, hot, humid and jampacked with soldiers. Britain's former Ambassador to Russia and next Ambassador to the U.S. stepped up to the speaker's stand. First he tried to pour himself a drink, but the cap on the bottle stuck. Next he asked for a reading lamp. It was brought, minus a shade. Sir Archibald borrowed a beret from an officer in the first row and placed it jauntily over the light. Then he began...
...libretto suggests something by Rex Beach out of Minsky, with touches of Snow-Bound and Tosca. Hope and Crosby are confidence men. Setting off for Alaska by ship, they accidentally toss their bankroll out of a porthole. Forced to scrub decks and clean cabins for their passage, they nevertheless arrive in port possessors of a map disclosing a hidden gold mine. The rest of the action takes place for the most part amid deep drifts of Hollywood snow (shaved ice and raw white corn flakes), as Hope and Crosby, assisted by a talking fish, a talking bear, a dynamite-carrying...
...ceiling for detective stories is 20,000 copies (it was somewhat lower before the war). Any author who sells in the 15,000 to 20,000 bracket is tops. In this bracket are writers like Erie Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, Mabel Seeley, Mignon Eberhart, Craig Rice...
...view without twinges of skepticism. Yul Brynner, still handicapped by a notice able accent, does his best opposite Miss Martin in a somewhat sterile part. The other 45 actors named in the program are mainly character bit players who are competent but have little chance to become outstanding; perhaps Rex O'Mailey was most noticeable because of his Gilbert-and-Sullivan-like song in the first act (the only solo, incidentally, not sung by Brynner or Miss Martin...
...that small corner of the U.S. But he won the admiration of his next-door neighbor, Professor Raymond Moley, and packed off to Washington with him in 1933, to become one of Franklin Roosevelt's first brain-trusters. Disfavor, as it must to all favorites, came to blunt Rex Tugwell; he was shipped off to Puerto Rico, where for the past four years he has been the island's controversial governor...