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By Dudley E«r!y'Miss Grant Takes Richmond'A Columbia p ct .re ,/? iced by SSylv*n Simon, directed by lovd Bacon,Kreen play b Na' Pr r o#v*ry Treeman and Frank ? ,«h n n* w playingat tho State Theater,f Hen Lucille BallD rk vV Mam Ho*d«nP+OV f jam.i CarterThis film winds up in one of the most unbelievable, silliest maneuvers these tired old eyes have ever seen on any : reen It startsoff well enough,’with William Holden hiring Lucille rial! from a secretarial school although she is the forst in her class He hires her because he is a bookie hiding behind a real estate comp nv front, and he thinks she's dumb enough never to catch on.But she is mteVcstrd in a low' cost housing project for her friends, and gets Bill involved Uj to this point, it ir logical and more than a little on the humorous side But, the writers apparenth got !hem-selves in a jam and had to resort to any mean, in order to get themselves out of itThii I i isuit is thai you won’t believe the solutions, especially when Holden and Bol and James Gleason frame a mcar.ie builder who has hogged available materials. The frame would be obvtcus to anv-body. And the way the ending is worked out is a disgrace.Very spotty. Like the little girl who, when good was very good, and when bad w-as horrid.The Magic Bow'A Un v«r* » I international picture, pe0. duced by n J Vtmne v. directed by Bernard Kmoa '#* pcroort play by Ro land Brrtwte ^rom the novel by M.inue1 Komroff No* p^ymq at the VarsityTheaterFabanibiJtann**tiarichtPaulGarmiSteward Grander PHylli* Calvert Jtan K«ntDffrtWit Pr c# C#c l BarkerPurportMnctimeidly th« life of Paganini, called the world s greatest violinist, this is one of the better English films. Stewart Grangeris excellent in the role of the violinist. arrogant In his genius but finallymm■..umbled by ve of the lovely Phyllis Calvert.If the picture has a serious fault, in its nace. At times itit i!sassof story-telling.OPTOMETRISTOffice Moor* I to 6 618H Coorrcu Ph 2-3MIothei Grs Thelovers w*ill be enthralledviolin solos, played bynn•V AYehudi Me.iuhin whil*through the motionspi 5.11 ins are by Beethoven, Timi trln and one composi0IIMISERIES?WHY DON’T YOU TRYIt’s different. If* timetested. Even if others failed you. try GOtf.rthis film.It is, basically, ti-e plot of boy meets girt, boy loses girl, boy wins girl. The romance of Granger,Jooryl born, and Phyllis Calvert, is strangled by fear of Napoleon’s displeasure, as he has ordered herone of his noblemen, that rap (just howto marry Grangerit is brought about is fuzzy by be-w by the Pope at a command performance in the Vatican.Cecil Parker, last seen in Austin as the Colo el in Quartet, camesvery close to stealing the picture as Granger’s manager.Not for shoot-'em-up fans, but thers will find it an interesting picture and musically a rare treatHow true it is 10 uie me oi raga- jnini, this reviewer does not know, jthe life of Paga-
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Austin American Stateman
Austin, Texas, US
Wed, Jan 04, 1950
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