Word: tation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jane Eyre (20th Century-Fox) is a florid, somewhat disappointing cinemadap-tation of Charlotte Bronte's story about the long-suffering governess who finally marries Edward Rochester (Orson Welles), the melancholic and irascible squire with the mad wife. There is little success in capturing the Brontean intensity of atmosphere and of character which should have made the novel a natural screen romance. As Jane, Joan Fontaine is too often merely tight-lipped and pale-perhaps because Orson Welles so seldom gives her reason to be anything else. His Rochester is fairly amusing as a period...
...wife, two guests and I were startled to hear the speaker repeat himself, not once, but twice, three, four, five times-"and let us have-" "and let us have-" "and let us have-" "and let us have-." In a moment there was a telling "click" as the disse tation continued. According to the announcer, the speaker was Wodehouse in person. Was his face red when, in order to get Wodehouse "out of the groove," he had to move the needle along the recording? I doubt...