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...life. Good and moving as it sometimes is, it leaves much to be said which, for the sake of the many neuropsychiatric casualties who are already returning from the war, badly needs saying to American civilians. The picture's crucial weakness: it confronts its fumbling, humiliated, pitiful soldier Zack (Joseph Cotten) with a girl (Ginger Rogers) who, instead of being reasonably average, is also a decidedly special case. Zack is on Christmas furlough from an Army psychiatric hospital; Mary is on Christmas furlough from a penitentiary...
Such artificiality, falling far short of universal human interest, also leads to painfully irrelevant storytelling: the girl spends a large part of the picture deceiving Zack, first for her own good, later for his. And in the course of pampering this sort of overspecialized pathos, the far more pathetic and important story which the picture pretends to tell gets pretty thoroughly tear-dimmed...
...Faithful. There are also moments of franker pain and shock than most films dare to hand an audience without Boris Karloff to reassure them it is all in fun-a scene with a screwily bellicose veteran of World War I (Chill Wills-see cut), a horrible fracas between Zack and a dog, a still grimmer scene in which Zack, alone in his Y.M.C.A. room, all but drowns in a maelstrom of the unforgettable noises of combat...
Brooklyn has won two previous pennants (1916 and 1920) since the World Series was inaugurated in 1903, but Wee Willie Keeler, Zack Wheat, Burleigh Grimes and Brooklyn's other immortals never succeeded in winning the Series. But Manager Leo Durocher, onetime Cardinal shortstop who, with the aid of nearly $1,000,000 worth of new material, led Brooklyn from third to first place in three years, brags "It'll take five or six games...
...March 31), last week resumed hearings. A teacher in P.S. 61, The Bronx, one Alfred J. Brooks, was revealed to have divided his time between The Bronx and Moscow. He had had seven leaves of absence from school since he became a teacher in 1922. Benjamin Gitlow and Joseph Zack, ex-Communist functionaries, said they had seen him in Moscow in 1927-28, working for the Communist International. His alleged party name: Bosse...