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WRITTEN ON THE WIND - Robert Wilder-Putnam...
Director Billy Wilder's technique of photographing Third Avenue in the grey morning sunlight with a concealed camera to keep the crowds from being self-conscious gives this sequence the shock of reality. Other attempts at authenticity of detail are equally rewarding. The apartment Don lives in-not too flossy and not too shabby-looks exactly as the interior of a remodeled Manhattan brownstone should look. Don's girl friend (Jane Wy-man), who also plays the role of a TIME researcher, seems qualified for the job: she is bright, courteous, indefatigable and impervious to rebuffs...
...SUMMER LONG - Wilder Hobson -Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
Readers who like their novels to have plot and purpose will not find much of either in All Summer Long, which is essentially a roving comedy of manners. FORTUNE Editor Wilder Hobson, onetime chairman of the Yale Literary Magazine and an authority on jazz (American Jazz Music), is mainly interested in prodding his people into disjointed remarks on music, clothes, Marx, alcohol, horses and the female figure. His deliberately meandering story is often witty, and stylishly tailored to a cast of characters who are unable to grasp anything more complicated than a highball...
...Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" is about as confusing in its parody as "The Skin of Our Teeth." Few theatregoers agree on the Wilder hodge-podge and there will be disagreement over the British-made United Artists film as well. On a few points there will be general accord: "Colonel Blimp" is long, technicolored, staid, and generally entertaining...