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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stop there. On the stage, the well-known tale of the haunting influence of Maxim de Winter's dead first wife on himself (Bramwell Fletcher), his new bride (Diana Barrymore), his grim housekeeper (Florence Reed) and his great oppressive house casts only a faint and fitful spell. The long, dusky, atmospheric tunnel through which, as book and movie, Rebecca advanced upon its melodramatic climax is here only a dry uphill path. And the melodrama itself, chained to one set, bilked of half its turns & twists, lacks half its old excitement...
Breathing Spell. In Paris, shivering cinemactors quit work for a while on a film about the Suez Canal, explained that because of the coal shortage their vaporized breath ruined all illusion of the tropics...
...indefinitely, it would be some time before they could resume the drive into Free China. Chungking's new War Minister, lean, smooth General Chen Cheng, and American officers, with whom he was on better terms than his predecessor, strove to wring every possible advantage from the frosty breathing spell...
...Bond. He is sworn in at a spine-chilling ceremony. In sepulchral gloom a light plays fitfully on a blood-spattered bier, on which lies a lifelike "corpse" wrapped in a black shroud. Into the "corpse" a dagger has been plunged to the hilt. Letters of blood spell the word Verraad (treachery). A predikant (pastor) intones: "He who betrays the Bond will be destroyed by the Bond. The Bond never forgets." Membership lasts "till death." Broeders recognize one another by secret signs, handclasps, passwords...
Beginning next week, on his old CBS spot (9-9:30 p.m. Wed.), Frankie will sing for Max Factor Cosmetics-on the not unlikely assumption that even if his voice didn't spell vitamins, it will probably send women straight out to the drugstore to buy lipsticks and pancake powder...