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Displaying beautiful teamwork halfway round the world, Messrs. Menzies and Fadden did what they could to simmer the crisis down. Mr. Menzies dictated and Mr. Fadden seconded a put-up-or-shut-up appeal to the Laborites to join up in the National Government. Then the Prime Minister saw to it that Australian Lieut. General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney was quickly upped to second-in-command in the Middle East under General Sir Archibald Wavell...
...edge into it; only when he thinks he is sure of the reaction does he move dramatically. Probability was strong that he would exhaust every possible means of supplying the British with ships, would devise every possible shade of diplomatic approach, would allow the whole convoy problem to simmer until public opinion was definitely behind...
...long that it is getting to be a little on the tiring side. Hedy Lamarr lets the cameraman accentuate the contrast between the whiteness of her skin and darkness of her eyes and hair, and tries to hide the fact that her figure is not what the simmer in her eyes would lead us to believe. But she does no acting, says nothing funny, and in general handles a highly insipid part in a highly insipid fashion. The one bright spot in the picture is Donald Meek, who appears for a few brief moments as a philosophical hobo...
Unfortunately, after the elements had been stirred and let simmer, the residuum didn't quite jell. Ernest Truex as the paterfamilias, Newton Fuller (who always wanted to live in the country) is well chosen, though his reiterated exhortation of "Just smell that air!" brings back memories of Ed Wynn's lisped plaint "I love the woods, I just love the woods." Jean Dixon as the wife is pleasant, but her change of heart just as the mortgage is going to be foreclosed--yes, there is a mortgage--seems slightly less than sincere. The various younger females, the daughter...
...Italy's portion of the Axis war on Great Britain continued last week to simmer on the back of the Mediterranean stove, evidently waiting for the Vienna chefs to season their Balkan stew (see p. 24), for cooler weather in the Egyptian desert, for the end of the rains in Ethiopia, for Germany to hamstring the British at home or join in a Southern Theatre attack. To keep the pot respectably warm, the Italian Air Force performed a few missions...