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...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...
...build it, prisoners had spent months in molelike mining with small shovels from barrack coal scuttles. To hide the earth and rock they removed, they granulated it and scattered it on the camp's graveled grounds. Authorities, reluctantly admiring the secret tunnel, soon suspected an additional evidence of Nazi cunning. Three more prisoners were caught, and all were enlisted men. They began to seem suspiciously like decoys, pledged to lay down a false trail, then surrender...
...chance were any of you in the neighborhood of the tunnel exit yesterday? Or the bridge ramp this side? A disgusting spectacle. Here were hundreds of American cars, lined up bumper to bumper, coming to Windsor for just one thing. Gas. The Government allows each 'tourist' twelve gallons. All he has to say is that he's going to Tilbury or Stoney Point or Leamington or North Bay. ... He gets the little book...
Fishy things seemed to be happening at the Canadian ends of Detroit's traffic links to the Dominion-the Windsor Fleetway Tunnel and the Ambassador Bridge. Windsor Star Columnist R. M. Harrison investigated, came away breathing hard. In righteous wrath next day he exposed some sleazy maneuverings by gas-hungry U.S. citizens...
...southeast China for 300 miles around will bear the scars of destruction left by a band of 16 U.S. soldiers. Somewhere in China last week the 16 grimly added up the results of their adventure. They had accounted for some 150 bridges, 50 roadblocks, 20 to 30 ferries, one tunnel, an assortment of locomotives, trucks, army hostels, one Catholic mission and a machine shop. But they had helped slow the Japanese advance on Kweichow, had helped save from utter disaster the great retreat in Southeast China...