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BISHOP LOUIS FRANCIS KELLEHER, 57 year old aux
iliary to Archbishop Richard J. Cushing of Boston, was stricken
suddenly with a heart attack and died shortly after in the rectory
of St. Catherine of Genoa Church, Sommerville, Mass., where
he was pastor. . . An unknown Japanese Catholic saved the sacred
relics of a mission church in Bhamo, Burma. The Japanese burn
ed and pillaged churches everywhere but after this mission had
been burned the pastor found a note, written by a Japanese
soldier. He said he had taken charge of the sacred relics and the
chalice and that he would give them to the first priest he met.
Three years later, the pastor of Lashio, qn the Burma road be
tween Burma and China, told that a Japanese soldier had'many
months before turned the relics and chalice over to him. He said
the soldier told him that he was a student of the Society of Mary.
. . Mexican newspapers have denounced moves within the United
Nations to intervene in Spain. . . Catholic and Protestant clergy
men joined together in a rally of opposition against the totali
tarian rule in Hungary.
PROTESTANT MINISTERS Protested against inclusion of
the Catholic Youth Organization in the Baton Rouge, La., Com
munity Chest campaign. As a result Catholics held a separate
drive for this fund, raised $20,000 morp than their $35,000 goal.
Catholics also contributed heavily to the city chest drive. . . Card
inal Stritch, speaking before 200,000 members of the Chicago
Holy Name Societies, declared that there never was in the his
tory of the world such an organized,effort against God as there
is today. He said communism undermined the basic principles
of our government while masquerading as lovers of democracy.
. . British Catholics are continuing a full force fight for justice
for Archbishop Sjepinac . . . Cardinal Pierre Petit de Julleville,
Archbishop of Rouen, has been awarded the Coss of the Legion
of Honor by the French government in recognition of his courage
during the occupation of his diocese. . . The summer camp of the
Catholic Girl Scouts of Slovakia has been taken over by com
munists.
GENERAL GEORGE C. MARSHALL and Chinese commun
ists joined to do a favor(for a nun in China. Mother Marie Fran
cois-Michel, provincial superior of the Franciscan Missionaries
of Mary, wrote a letter to General Marshall, asking him to help
her remove a group of Chinese novices from the communist zone.
General Marshall passed on the request to the Chinese commun
ists who granted it. . . The Thomas More Book Club is pressing
the other Catholic book clubs for leadership as the best of the
book clubs. John Tully, who operates the club, does it not for
profit but because he believes it is important to read Catholic
books. Latest of the dual selections features Father William J.
Smith’s “Spotlight on Labor Unions.” According to Mr. Tully,
this book is worth as much as all the novels in the last 50 years.
Father Smith contributed an article on labor to the first issue of
this paper. . . Yhere are 30 boys and 29 girls at the orphanage at
Nazareth now. Monsignor Dennis Lynch is in charge of the in
stitution.
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Sam Goldwyn confronts his fel
low producers with the blunt
charge, that Hollywood is “out of
touch.” “People have been asking
me what’s the,. matter with Holly
wood,” says Goldwyn. “They want
to know why the pictures have
been so poor this year.”
He suggests that Hollywood has
run out of ideas; that there are
not enough good writers to turn
out 400 or 500 screenplays a year.
Without intending to be cynical
I’d say Hollywood does not make
too many pictures, but makes the
same one too many times over.
If there are not enough good
writers > in Hollywood, then pro
ducers such as Sam Goldwyn
should look further afield till they
find some.
The great writers whose names
endure were not necessarily suc
cessful as promoters. Few of them
made fhe kind of money that is
a requisite before a fellow is con
sidered worthy to rub shoulders,
professionally or socially, with
the creative functionaries of Hol
lywood, where to get a writing
contract these days, one needs to
be either a slick salesman or a
cousin.
Mr. Goldwyn is at least partly
right when he says that “Holly
wood is dry of things to say be
cause it has gotten too far from
the average person” and it may
well prove true that competition
from foreign film industries will
“provide the tlireat that Hollywood
needs to stir itself out of its fat
cat complacency.”
For the purpose of fair argu
ment, however, Mr. Goldwyn
might have been more specific as
to what he means by “things to
say.”
He insists that what the public
desires in its movie entertainment
is “some reflection of its own
emotional turmoil” and that for
eign film producers, notably the
British, have “made great prog
ress” because they “have applied
a viewpoint that is broader and
more international” than Holly
wood’s and are thus getting
“closer to the people by reflecting
the intimate universality of every
day living.”
To this porducer Darryl Zanuck
replies with a list of recent mo
tion pictures, including “The
Yearling,” “Duel in The Sun,” “It’s
a Wonderful Life,” “Lifb with
Father,” “The Razor’s Edge,” “The
Lost Weekend,” “The Beilis of St.
Mary’s,” “Anna and the King of
Siam,” “The Spiral Staircase” and
Mr. Goldwyn’s own latest super
film, “The Best Years of Our
Lives,” all of which he implies
have something to say. Mr. Zan
uck points out that “Hollywood
must supply the requirement of a
world-wide market” and that
“certain films which may not be
palatable to sophisticated metro
politan audiences frequently prove
most acceptable to theatregoers in
rural communities and foreign
areas.”
Between Goldwyn and Zanuch
we have a wide gap of reasoning
but both have touched upon per
tinent facts.
“The Best Years of Our Lives,”
now drawing vast crowds, and
sending the critics into ecstasies,
presumably offers a key to Mr.
Goldwyn’s evaluation of a motion
picture that has “things to say.”
This powerful screenplay pun
gently written by Robert Sher
wood, is based on MacKinlay Kan
tor’s novel, “Glory for Me,” and
deals with the alleged experiences
and reactions of three returning
war veterans. It is directed by
William Wyler, an Academy win
ner who did .service during the
war and it is vigorous, though not
FOR THE FAMILY
Abbott and Costello In
Hollywood.
Ambush Trail.
ANCHORS AWEI6H
ANNA AND THE KING
OF SIAM.
Arson Squad.
Avalanche.
Bad Bascom.
Bandit of Sherwood
Forest.
Beauty and the Bandit
BELLS OF ST. MARY'S.
Black Beauty.
Blazing The Western
Trail.
Blondie Khows Best.
Border Bad Men.
Border Bandits.
Boston Blackie’s
Rendezvous.
Burma Victory.
Captain Eddie.
Captain Kidd.
Caravan Trail. .
Claudia and David.
Conquest of Cheyenne.
Courage of Lassie.
Cowboy Blues.
Cuban Pete.
The Daltons Ride
Again.
Dangerous Money
Devotion.
Do You Love Me?
Driftin’ River
Easy to Look At.
Falcon’s Adventure, The
Faithful in My Fashion.
Fighting Bill Carson.
Forever Tours.
Gallant Journey
Gas House Kids
Genius at Work.
Gentleman Joe Palooka
THE GREEN TEARS.
Great Day.
The Great Morgan.
Gunman’s Code
Heading; West.
Holiday in Mexico.
Home Sweet Homicide.
The* House on 92nd Street.
If I’m Lucky.
The Inner Circle.
In Old Sacramento.
It Shouldn’t Happen to a
Dog.
Joe Palooka, Champ
Johnny Frenchman
JOLSON STORY, THE
Junior Miss.
KEYS OF THE
KINGDOM.
Landrush
Love Laughs at Andy
Hardy
LIFE OF MOTHER
CABRINI
Let’s Go Steady
Lonesome Trail.
Make Mine Music.
Man From Oklahoma.
A MAM TO REMEMBER.
Margie
Mighty JiIcGurk, The
Miss Susie Slagle's.
My Brother Talks To
Horses
My Pal Trigger.
Nob Hill.
O. S
Our Hearts Were
Growing Up.
OUR TINES HAVE
TENDER GRAPES.
Outlaw of The Plains
Personality Kid
Prairie Badmen.
Rainbow over the Rockies
Red River Renegades. ,
Rendezvous 24.
The Return of Rusty.
Rhythm Round-Up.
Rio Grande Raiders
Rockin’ in The Rockies.
Rough Rldin Justice.
See My Lawyer.
Scotland Yard
Investigator.
The Shadow Returns;
Shadows on the Range.
Shadow Over Chinatown;.
The Show-off.
Sing While You Dance
SISTER KENNY.
Smoky.
Son of Lassie.
Song of Arizona.
Song of Old Wyoming.
Song of the Sierras
SONG OF THE SOUTH
South of Monterey.
Spook Busters
STATE FAIR.
Stranger from Santa Fa
Slightly Scandalous.
Sunbonnet Sue.
Terror by Night.
Terrors on Horseback.
There Goes Kelly.
This Man’s Navy.
Three Little Girls In
Blue
THREE WISE FOOLS*
Thunderhead.
Tokyo Rose.
Trail to Mexico.
Trigger Finger*
Two Guys from
Milwaukee.
TWO SISTERS FROM
BOSTON
Two Years Before the
Mast.
The Unseen.
The Virginian.
A Walk in the Sun.
What Next Corporal
Hargrove?
When Johnny Comes
Flying Home.
Wife of Monte Cristo.
Wild Beauty.
The Woman in Green.
You Came Along.
FOR ADULTS
Accomplice
And Then There Wer<
None.
Bamboo Blonde.
Bedlam.
Behind The Mask.
Below the Deadline.
Bewitched.
Billy Rore’s Diamond
Horseshoe.
The Black Angel.
Blonde for a Day.
Blood on the Sun.
The Blue Dahlia.
Bowery Bombshell.
Brief Encounter
Brute Man
The Catman of Paris.
Caesar and Cleopatra.
Canyon Passage.
Centennial Summer.
Child of Divorce
Christmas In Connecticut
Cloak and Dagger
Cluny Brown.
The Cockeyed Miracle.
Col. Effingham’s Raid.
Crack-up.
Danger Signal.
Danger Woman.
The Dark Angel.
The Dark Corner.
Dead of Night
Devil Bat's Daughter.
The Devil’s Mask.
Dick Tracy Versus Cue
ball
Don’t Fence Me In.
Dragonwyck.
Drifting Along
Freddie Steps Out.
The French Key.
Worn This Day Forward
Girls of The Big House
> Guest in the House.
The Harvey Girls.
Having Winderful Crime
H.eartbeat.
HENRY THE FIFTH.
High School Hero
Hotel Berlin.
I Cover Big Town.
Inside Job.
I Remember April.
I Was a Criminal.
Johnny Angel.
Just Before Dawn.
The Kid from Brooklyn.
The Killers.
Kiss and Tell.
Lady on a Train.
Lady Luck
The Last Crooked Mile.
Leave Her to Heaven.
The Little Giant.
The Lost Week-end.
Love Letters
The Man Who Dared.
Meet Me on Broadway.
Missing Lady, The
Monsieur Beaucaire.
Music For Millions
My Darling Clementine
My Name is Julia Ross
My Reputation.
Night and Day.
Night Editor.
Night Train to Memphis
Nocturne
Notorious.
Of Human Bondage.
One Exciting Week.
Over 21.
Passkey to Danger.
Perfect Marriage, The
Perilous Holiday.
Pride of the Marines.
Rendezvous With Annie.
Renegades.
The Runaround.
Secret of the Whistler
Sentimental Journey.
Shadowed
She-Wolf of L/ondln
Shock.
Somewhere in the Night.
The Spanish Main.
Spector of the Rose.
Spellbound.
The Spiral Staircase.
Stolen Life.
The Stork Club.
Strange Conquest.
Strange Holiday.
Strange Impersonation.
The Stranger. •
Strange Triangle.
Strange Voyage
Swing Parade of 1946
Talk About a Lady.
Till the End of Time.
Time of Their Lives.
To Each His Own.
To Have and Have Not.
Tomorrow Is Forever.
Two Smart People
The Unknown.
Voice of the Whistler.
Waltz Time.
Wanted for Murder
Week-end at the Waldlrf.
The Well-Groomed Brides
White Tie and Tails
Wife Wanted
Within Three Walls.
Tears Between, The
Young Widow.
Ziegfeld Follies.
OBJECTIONABLE IN PART
Adventures.
The Affairs of Susan.
Apology for Murder.
Are These Our Parents?
Bandits of the Badlands.
Barbary Coast Gent.
The Big Sleep.
Black Parachute.
Blonde Fever.
Blue Skies.
Body Snatcher.
Bride Wore Boots.
Broadway Rhythm.
The Bullfighters.
Casanova in. Burlesque.
Confidential Agent.
The Corn is Green.
Delightfully Dangerous.
Delinquent Parents.
Desirable Lady
Diary of a Chambermaid
Doll Face
The Dolly Sisters.
Don Juan Quilligan.
The Diughgirls.
Eadle Was a Lady.
Rasy to Wed.
Faces in the Fog.
Face of Marble.
Fallen Angel.
Fired Wife.
The Flying Serpent
For Whom the Bell Tells.
Frenchman’s Creek.
Frontier Gat
Frozen Ghost
The Gentleman
Misbehaves.
Getting Gertie’s Garter.
G. I. Honeymoon
Gilda.
Glass Alibt
Great Flamorian
Guest Wile.
Her Kind of Man.
Hi Diddle Diddle.
Hour Before Dawn. The
House of Frankenstein.
Immortal Sergeant. The
Incendiary Blonde.
Invisible Man’s Revenge.
The ~
Janie Gets Married.
Jealousy.
Jungle Captive.
Jungle Woman.
Kitty.
Klondike Kate.
Lady in Burlesque
Love on the Dole
Lover Come Back.
Mad Ghoul.
The Man in Grey.
Mask of Dijon „
Men in Her Diary.
The Merry Monahans.
Mexicana.
Mildred Fierce.
Ministry of Fear.
Mr. Ace.
Monster Maker The
Mion Over Las Vegaa.
Never Say Goodbye
Night in Paradise
O My Darling Clementine
One More Timorrow.
On Approval.
Open City.
The Phantom Speaksi
Pillow of Death.
Pillow to Poet.
Port of 40 Thievee
Portrait of a Woman
Postman Always Ringe
Twice.
Lainbow Island. ,
Roughly Speaking.
Royal Scandal.
The Sailor Takes a Wits
Salty O’Rourke
Salome—Where She
Danced.
Saratoga Trunk.
Scarlet Street.
Screaching Wind.
The Shanghai Drama.
Sign of the Cross.
The Seventh Veil.
She Wouldn’t Say Tea
She Wrote the Blok.
Song of the Sarong.
The Story of G. I. Joa
Strange Dove of Martha
Ivers.
Temptation
The Sultan’s Daughter.
Summer Storm.
Suspense.
Take It or Leave It.
Tangier.
rPppri A era>
That Night With Ton.
Three Strangers.
Thunder, Rock.
Together Again.
Tonight ajid Every Night.
Uncertain Glory.
Uninvited. The
Up In Mabel’s Room.
The Vampire’s Ghost.
Welldigger’s Daughter
Whistle Stop.
Without Love.
Wicked Lady, The
CONDEMNED
The Outlaw
Pepe Le Moko.
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entirely reliable, documentation.
Like many other Hollywood
screen stories with “Something to
Say,’’ it looks into the minds^ of
everyday' people as through the
rippled off-focus of a Beverly Hills
swimming pool and, instead of re
porting roundly upon the problems
of the returning veterans, tears
from the so^al story written by
the war, only the ugliest of facts.
It patronizes millions of men who
fought and suffered for a way of
life in which they believe, but
which few Hollywood writers '
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