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...Thérèse (adapted from Emile Zola's Therese Raquin by Thomas Job; produced by Victor Payne-Jennings & Bernard Klawans) is a dark brown, 19th-Century melodrama of crime and self-punishment. Thérèse Raquin (Eva LeGallienne), married to a stuffy, sickly, mamma's boy Paris milliner, is madly in love with a painter named Laurent (Victor Jory). She eggs Laurent into doing her husband in by way of a boating "accident" on the Seine...
...Thérèse has few such spurts. Its classic plot can never be entirely dull, but Playwright Job has made things seem unnecessarily oldfashioned. As sheer melodrama, Thérèse doesn't pump up enough action; otiose characters keep chattering their heads off. It doesn't pack enough suspense: there is no taut atmosphere of guilty tongue-slips and sharp, suspicious glances...
Soon the U.S. was obsessed with a challenging peacetime problem- plumbing. Soon it had the most luxurious bathrooms since Haroun A; Rashid piped Tigris water into Bagdad-and in much th esame stryle. It also had the fastest automobile and airplanes, the most lavish radios, the most sumptuous refrigerators, the baggiest plust fours, the biggest skyscrapers housing the biggest millionaires, the biggest speakeasies, the biggest racketeers and gang wars, the biggest crime wave, and in the end the biggest depression, winding up in the biggest war in history...
From a building in the disciplinary area of Indiana's Ft. Benjamin Harrison last week rushed an irate mob of G.I. prisoners. They snatched up the whitewashed boulders lining the paths and flower beds and rushed the guards. Suddenly, th compound became a battlefield...
...presented, the situation is perfect for an intelligent comedy of the same order as "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" or "Blithe Spirit." Th ex-flyer is guided back to earth by a whimsical orderly of World War I vintage; he jokes about the events of his other life; he cynically surveys images of himself at different ages and mental capacities. Everything is perfect for comedy except for the regrettable tragedy of death and its effects on friends and relatives...