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...success of such pictures as "My Friend Flicka," "Lassie Come Home," "Home in Indiana," and "Thunderhead" makes it apparent that Hollywood has rediscovered a gold mine in the old theme of a child's love for an animal. "National Velvet" is the latest in this pleasing series, and it pretty largely lives up to the high standards set by its predecessors...
...easy to believe that a twelve-year-old girl can train her own horse and then ride him to victory in the famed Grand National, the most difficult racing event of them all. Once the basic plot is accepted, however, "National Velvet" appears as a colorful and heart-warming narrative of a child's devotion and will...
Before he enlisted in 1943, black-haired, velvet-eyed Johnny sang with Bob Crosby and Gene Krupa. Then he signed up as a drummer-the Army does not admit "singer" as a musical classification-with Glenn Miller's Air Forces Band. (Major Miller has been missing since a December England-to-Paris flight, but the band continues to bear his name.) Desmond's G.I. job, which he is apparently doing sensationally well, is singing. His I'll Be Seeing You and Long Ago and Far Away, in phonetic French, makes young Parisians jump up & down, squeal "Bravo...
...next day, Harry Hopkins visited Pius XII. The Pope had dressed as he would to receive the head of a state -in a red-velvet, ermined mozetta, more elaborate than his usual garb. Only Myron C. Taylor, the President's personal minister to the Vatican, was with Hopkins and the Pope, and no outsider knew what was said...
...National Velvet (Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Anne Revere; TIME...