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There are some nice things in Dark of the Moon. With its folk songs and dances, its revival meetings and darting witch girls, it is freaked with color, touched with strangeness. But all this adds brightness rather than body to a yarn that is never very robust, and that takes hours to re-count what the ballad tells in a moment. Nor is there much more real poetry to Dark of the Moon than there is real drama. Its folkways make pleasant enough rustic vaudeville, but they smell of Broadway. Its witches' world escapes absurdity, but falls far short...
Fast, fluent, implausible yarn of amorous and political intrigue inside Turkey, featuring an American girl with a past, a British intelligence agent, a Nazi provocateur, a Hungarian harlot, and the Lend-Lease Administration...
...York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell, whose words of praise for anything Rooseveltian are rare as a miser's largesse, was moved to remark: "The best job of reporting that the competent Early has turned in since . . . he scooped the world on the smash yarn that President Harding was dead...
...million worth of civilian production authorized during the optimistic autumn. Less than half of this reconversion program will be permitted, because of shortages of materials and manpower, WPB officials now said. Last week WPB's Chairman Julius A. ("Cap") Krug halted the production of cotton yarn for civilian needs. Manufacture of upholstery and drapery material, chenille bedspreads and dishmops, would make way for an Army rush order of eight million pounds of cotton duck a month, to meet a shortage of Army tents. The Fourth Service Command in Atlanta furloughed 1,000 former textile workers now in uniform...
...Frenchman's Creek," from Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name, isn't a bad yarn, but Paramount's production is a little too long-winded and self-conscious. Technicolor is brilliantly used, however, and largely compensates for the picture's weaknesses...