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From the very beginning of his saga of Charles Foster Kane, when he plunges straight into the story after the title is flashed on the screen, with none of the usual dreary lists of associate producers and wardrobe mistresses, Welles kicks over the time-tested customs of movie-making, employing unusual angle shots, unique lights and shadows, and dramatic flashbacks--a device which has rarely been so effectively exploited...
Cook Book, like Joe Cook's imagination, often detoured around established facts, but it got the idea of Cook's gaga saga across. In Evansville, Ind., in the 'gos, the boy Joe was balked from joining the circus and talked his mother into electric-lighting the Cook barn so Joe could give a show there. The Cook home itself had only gas. Joe grew to be the only claimant of 18-ball juggling and had a picture of himself doing it, the balls suspended by invisible wires. When he began talking on stage as he talked...
Another technicolor saga of nineteenth century industrialism bites the dust at the U.T. this week. After the Pony Express and the first railroad had made several western trips on the screen, it remained for some producer to string the first continental telegraph. "Western Union" serves this purpose, without doing much more than that. Replete with Indians, bison, love interest and a dudish Harvard graduate, it is hardly epic, but does provide a pleasantly wool-tingling story...
Lady in the Dark Album (Decca). Sibilant Hildegarde sings the Gertrude Lawrence part of the Hart-Gershwin-Weill musical. In the main, German Composer Kurt Weill has a baboo approach to U. S. musical idiom, e.g., Saga of Jenny, My Ship, This Is New. Good enough for anyone's piano is One Life To Live...
This week, with the help of Collaborator Edward Anthony, Schechter recounts in an anecdotal history the saga of his eight years as newschief for NBC. Entitled I Live on Air,† his masterwork is sometimes lively, sometimes arch, in describing strange doings that range from wiring the pyramids in Egypt for sound to putting on a contest among singing mice. Many are the bad aerial breaks that he recalls. After an announcement of the Macon crash, while listeners were waiting frantically to find out how many had been killed, Ben Bernie cut loose with a number that ran: "Take...