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Because it is sincerely written and carefully acted, notably by Miss Lupino, and because Vincent Sherman is one Hollywood director who tries to make every shot count, In Our Time manages now & then to give domestic point to the political drama in the background. But much of it is too purely domestic, and some of it suggests a blunted, insensitive imitation of Chekhov...
Fifteen men marched through Minneapolis last week on their way to jail. They went because they are followers of the late Leon Trotzky. Almost all are members of a minuscule political group known as the Socialist Workers Party. On the march they were led, as always, by volatile Vincent R. Dunne, ardent Trotzkyite,onetime head of Minneapolis' volatile Local 544 of the A.F. of L. Teamsters Union. Two years ago they were convicted of sedition, not because of any overt act, but because they believe in the proletarian revolution...
Chennault has lavished great personal affection and care upon a group of key young men: Colonel Clinton ("Casey") Vincent, 29, commander of the forward echelon; David L. ("Tex&") Hill, formerly an A.V.G. ace, now a lieutenant colonel, commander of the forward fighters; Lieut...
...daughter, runs away with her, leaves Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins like a pair of dangling participants in a sentence of slow death. Georgia-born Miriam Hopkins achieves a lethal portrayal of a lint-brained, romantic, frantically egocentric mother. Bette Davis makes her two love affairs intelligent, sad, dignified. Vincent (The Hard Way) Sherman's direction of a careful cast turns a negligible play not so much into cinema as into good average theater...
...Edison-who didn't seem to mind. Wealthy, 69-year-old Walter Evans Edge (Hoover's Ambassador to France, ally of the senior Henry Cabot Lodge in the Senate fight against the League of Nations) piled a plurality of 128,000 votes over Newark's Mayor Vincent J. Murphy, supported by Jersey City's Frank Hague, the Communists, A.F. of L., C.I.O., and Frank Sinatra...