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...Gardner, 26-year-old ex-student of stenography who married & divorced Mickey Rooney and Artie Shaw on the way up, has a B-and-B quality that makes M-G-M hope she will become a screaming siren by the time Lana Turner begins to run down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Big Dig | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Sedative. In Seattle, Richard Ace Brundage, onetime volunteer fireman, confessed to setting four fires because "when the siren blows it seems to calm my nerves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Minutes passed before the Effingham volunteer fire department, awakened by the station-house siren, got from their beds to the firehouse; by the time the first engine had ended a screaming 70-mile-an-hour run, desperate patients were leaping out windows. Yelling firemen hurriedly began raising ladders. So did nearby householders. Other men & women dragged mattresses from their houses, tried to use them to break the fall of those who were poised to leap with the flames licking at them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Glare in the Sky | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Legendary Atlantis may have been "enticing-exciting-exotic" as the billboards claim, but the movie "Siren of Atlantis" is not. This latest attempt to reproduce the "Lost Horizon" twist ends up in a dull, uninteresting, drab film...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

Aumont is fine as the dashing legionnaire, but nothing can save the ill-fated plot. "Siren of Atlantis" started with an original idea and developed it poorly...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

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