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...romantic complications. Daughter Anne (Jeanne Grain) almost misses the marital boat by being assistant mother to her younger brothers and sisters. Ernestine (Barbara Bates) has a crush on a college sheik. Budding Belle Martha (Debra Paget) charms an Amherst man when she blossoms out in a bathing suit. Even Widow Gilbreth temporarily titillates Tycoon Edward Arnold...
...Narrow Margin (RKO Radio) is the kind of lowbudget, high-quality movie that the trade calls a "sleeper." This particular sleeper accommodates some colorful passengers on a Chicago-Los Angeles train. A jut-jawed detective (Charles Mc-Graw) is escorting a gangster's sloe-eyed widow (Marie Windsor) to be the key witness in a grand jury crime probe. The detective's problem is to evade a couple of cold-blooded syndicate hoods who have rubbed out the detective's partner and are now bent on murdering the widow...
...time without setting any celluloid on fire. This 1919 corn-belt classic by Lieut. Beale Cormack* is a blend of Joe Miller and mellowdrama, with a cast of hayseedy characters: confidence man Bill Merridew (Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill), who is out to fleece Josie, the pretty Oklahoma widow (Dinah Shore), only to be outwitted by bashful bumpkin Aaron (Alan Young). To this staple story the picture adds Technicolor and tunes like Marshmallow Moon (already a jukebox favorite), but subtracts so much from Aaron that he turns out rusty rather than rustic...
...this time a witch came to town as a bondwoman to the wool merchant's widow. She was a Norse girl, a beauty with "great, sea-grey eyes" and hair "unbelievably golden"; her name was Swan Ygern. Swan healed the Lord Cinqmort of a bloody flux, and so becharmed his wicked soul that he even left off his wenching to eat her beetle puddings under the Weird Oak Tree. She gave her mistress' daughter the dread effigy of St. Uncumber-to whom unwilling wives prayed that he uncumber them of their mates-and when the poor husband failed...
Before an issue of TIME goes to press, a short may turn into a parmark (only to be outspaced later), a twin-bed position may be dummied, a stringer queried for a checking poin't, a widow picked up near the NA researchers' bullpen, and double trucks left bleeding in the gutter...