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...chronicle the attempts of Victor Moore, a Caspar Milquetoast Senator from "a No'th'n state," to root out the stench that made New Orleans famous. Moore is superb, and he is the only member of the cast who isn't handicapped by the failure to speed up the tempo of the movies. Bob Hope plays William Gaxton's original role and while Hope is always good for his share of laughs, his somewhat peculiar talents are rather wasted here...
...heart of downtown Washington, erection was rushed at emergency tempo on a $600,000 building, to house Lowell Mellett's Office of Government Reports, the glorified clipping service which digests newspapers for busy bureaucrats. The Washington Post in a front-page editorial called it "The Great Boondoggle" of the war, pointed out that Congress had specifically refused to appropriate money for the building. The Post also dubbed it "Mellett's Madhouse." Mellett's defense was that the work of his bureau had expanded, and anyway the President wanted him to have the building...
...dance is the Brazilian samba* notable alike for its breezy tempo and its lilting bounce. North Americans got their first inklings of samba rhythms three years ago, when seductive Carmen Miranda came up from Rio to shine on Broadway in The Streets of Paris, became really aware of it last spring, when she samba-sang and samba-danced in a cinema, That Night in Rio (TIME, March 24). Since then the samba has been winning more & more fans. By last week...
...thrives on tricks, surprises, and the paradoxically brittle warmth of Miss Hepburn's acting. For the firs half of the picture the tricks are new, the surprises come fast and furiously, the acting adds tempo and supplies authenticity. Then the script writers seem to run out of ideas, and begin to fall back on old, familiar slapstick. You keep remembering how well; everything had started out and looking for a twist, a turn, a climax that doesn't come. When the lights turn up you go out laughing, but a little sorry that the most promising comedy in a long...
...Allied observers, certain that Rommel would make another push, it seemed that much the same reasons might account for further Axis successes. From the tempo of British air and sea attacks on Tripoli and the Mediterranean convoy route, it was obvious that Rommel was taking good care to supply himself well before he advanced again...