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...turns out, the sentence is not so light after all. He is hauled about, willy-nilly, among her eager little friends, embarrassed by her embittered swain (Johnny Sands), and teased at every turn by Miss Loy's insufferably smug lover, Rudy Vallee. Worse still, of course, he falls for the judge. Good fun: Grant and Vallee competing grimly before their ladyloves in sack races, three-legged races and such other corruptions of sport as picnics are apt to inspire...
...would have difficulty turning out a Dark Corner or even a Blue Dahlia, which had a certain rude style and spirit of their own.) Best thing in the picture is Scotland Yard (amusingly played by long-jawed, quinine-flavored Alastair Sim), who is almost as bungling as he is smug, and never loses his complacency, even over his worst mistakes...
...fiction, dressed in the worst prose, that "Red" Lewis has ever written. In essence, it is a cut-&-slash pamphlet, packed to the boards with ferocity, diatribe and disgust. Kingsblood Royal is not another onslaught on the old established fact of Southern discrimination; it is a blow at the smug white of the Northern cities-at the man who merely dabbled in race prejudice until the industrial needs of World War II caused thousands of migrant Negro workmen to blacken his lily-white doorstep...
Transcribed-show builders last week were smug-sure that Colman's walkout (for a guaranteed $150,000 a year) would some day become a stampede. Although NBC makes transcriptions, at least one energetic independent was ready with staff and know-how to handle runaways. He was hard-eyed, 41-year-old Frederic William Ziv, the producer of the Colman show and the big beglerbeg of the "open-end"* game...
...first programs were picked up in student rooms by tapping the radio to the radiators. After three weeks of such operation, a smug technician heard the station over his automobile receiver on the way home from Wellesley somewhere in the Newtons. F.C.C. has strict limits on the radiation of unlicensed stations, so the Network turned from the radiators to the cold water pipes...