GOEIiIER'S October 25, 1947
WALTER DAVENPORT'Editor WILLIAM L. CHENIRY' Publisher JOE ALEX MORRIS' Managing Editor KENNETH LITTAUER • Fiction Editor WILLIAM O. CHESSMAN • Art Director
W. B. COURTNEY Europe WELDON JAMES Far East FRANK D. MORRIS Articles ULRICH CALVOSA Photographs OF THE MONTH JIM MARSHALL West Coast GWYN BARKER London AMY PORTER Articles GURNEY WILLIAMS Humor FRANK GERVASI Washington FREDERICK R. NEELY Aviation ANDRE FONTAINE Articles AIMEE LARKIN Distal LESTER VELIE Articles Washington RUTH FOWLER Distaf WILLIAM HILLMAN KYLE CRICHTON Amusements RUTH CARSON Articles JAMES C. DERIEUX Washington HELEN P. BUTLER Syntax LEONARD A. PARIS Articles HENRY L. JACKSON Wearables EDWARD P. MORGAN Europe HERBERT ASBURY Articles JOSEPH UMHOEFER Articles LARABIE CUNNINGHAM FictHm Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents "GREEN DOLPHIN STREET" LANA TURNER TftIS WEEK THE WEEK'S MAII. VAN DONNA RICHARD HEFLIN • REED • HART INCONGRUI ERAMUS FICTION PAGE FRANK MORGAN • EDMUND GWENN GENTLEMEN: Seems to be a conflict be DAME MAY WHITTY- REGINALD OWEN MY LOVE WEARS BLACK By OCTAVUS ROY COHEN II tween editorials in the Sept. 13th issue. In The Serial Story. The first of Jour parts. Uniting Western Europe you use the GLADYS COOPER phrase "quid pro quo" without translation. BERNIE AND ME By WILLIAM FULLER 18 Screen Play by SAMSON RAPHAELSON Translations, Please, is a ridicule of writers Based on the Novel by. .ELIZABETH GOUDGE I'd wondered what Wild Man Bernie was like outside the Artny. who use foreign phrases without footnotes or explanations as to the English meanings. Directed by VICTOR SAVILLE THE GREEN BOUGH By FELICIA GIZYCKA 22 Produced by CAREY WILSON Nothing like self-criticism, is there? Absit Roxie was unspoiled by stcrets, unawakened by love. invidia! JANE LEE REESE ANDERS, THE OTrtER MIND READER By OGDEN NASH 26 DON J. ANDERS, Grand Rapids, Mich. Thh Short Short Story. Gniti siiiniis! "PIPE DUH MARY " By HENRY STEIG 50 Unlike Samlon, Charlie's prowess didn't depend on his long hair. . . . Pardon me, but your slip is showing. G. MORGAN, Rosemead, Cal. THE LYNCHING By PAUL ANNIXTER 96 With the rains came hunger—and in Africa, hunger means murder. . . . What in hell does "quid pro quo" mean? WILLIAM KATZ, Dallas, Tex.
ARTICLES Something like sine qua non with a slight touch of ne plus ultra. YOUR CHILD'S PICTURES CAN TALK We are writing this review of "Green Dol . . . iQue estd quid pro quo? By JULIAN BACH, JR. 14 CURT C. HARTWIG, Dayton, Ohio phin Street" after witnessing a preview de Dott't ihrow away Junior's early daubs. Find what they signify. signed to test audience reaction. This is a Algo como sine qua non con un poquito special technique that M-G-M employs to WHAT'S WRONG WITH U.N.? By FRANK GERVASI 16 de ne plus ultra. find out how great a public appeal a picture A study of the conflicting forces that imperil its existence. ' has. "Green Dolphin Street" scored the BROADWAY SORTIE By KYLE CRICHTON 20 . . . Sept. 13th issue carries an editorial highest audience reaction in the history of Translations, Please. Page 13, same issue. Review of Rodgers and Hammerstein's new musical experiment, War Bride, Quentin Reynolds, second previews, according to statistics of the Mo Allegro. tion Picture Research Bureau. Yes, ninety- paragraph down: "Du hist viel zu hiibsch two per cent of the audience thought the THE MORGENTHAU DIARIES und verstdndig filr einen General. . . ." Translation, please! picture was either very good or excellent. By HENRY MORGENTHAU, JR. 24 FRANZ R. WAGNER. Richland Center, Wis. And we were one of the ninety-two per cent! PART V: THE PARADOX OF POVERTY AND PLENTY Attempting to solve the grim economic problems of the lean '30s. "Green Dolphin Street" is a picture with " You are too handsome and intelligent for bigness. Elizabeth Goudge's magnificent CONVOY TO CAMBODIA By WELDON JAMES 66 a general." novel (which won for her the coveted A journey into the interior of war-ravaged French Indo-China. $125,000 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Annual ... I was on the verge of awarding it the Novel Award) showed early promise of be DIPLOMAS IN DIPLOMACY By OREN ARNOLD 92 Pulitzer prize until on the same page, "quid ing a hit of staggering proportions. And This school prepares Americans for careers in Latin America. pro quo." Well, coute que coute, I know only English. A Priori, M-G-M has fulfilled the book's spectacular WHAT SHAPE NEXT? By J. LAWRENCE ANGEL 9A ULMONT E. IVES, Minneapolis, Minn. promise. You live through an earthquake Forecast—by an anthropologist—of the future Typical American. and a tidal wave that make Jove's thunder . . . You make reference to "quid pro quo." THE BRAIN OF THE BOOKIES bolts seem like junior's toy drum. Stately Ye avalo sattam pott'irukruthu? Pes'iruk- By PAUL GARDNER and ALLAN GOULD 106 frigates plunge through storm-lashed seas; ren. A. C. M. BROOK, Vancouver, Canada the globe spins and you are in the Orient, Publisher Leo Hirschfield keeps tab on football prospects. then among the warring tribesmen of New We give up. Translation, Please! Zealand. ... 1 am thoroughly en rapport' with the "Green Dolphin Street" is epic stuff, pos Einflitsterung- in kau' recent leading arti sessing a power and a grandeur rarely THE WEEK'S MAIL From OUR READERS 4 cle' that the autore^ should avoid des achieved in motion pictures. It tells of a phrases etrangeres' which might horu^ the By FRELING FOSTER 6 curious and wild romance that carries its KEEP UP WITH THE WORLD inente" of the lector^ into a toimurl.'" Here is the segreto" of gut'' escritura:'" lovers to distant and exotic ends of the By TED SHANE 8 THE WEEK'S WORK D'abord la clarte; puis encore la clarte; world. It presents Lana Tbrner in a daring ct enfin la clarte.'^ . . . Jovio!" and new kind of dramatic role and a cast EDITORIALS: Now Hang Together, Or— • 3,000 Planes a Year • Maybe This Is for You 110 that includes lovely Donna Reed, rugged 1. French: "in harmony." 2. German: Van Heflin, a talented and handsome new COVER By DAVID PESKIN "suggestion." 3. Hawaiian: "your." 4. comer, Richard Hart. And there's Frank {Continued on page 46^ Morgan, Edmund Gwenn, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Gladys Cooper. Vol. laO. No. 17. I'ublisbed weekly by The Crowell- two years 50.00: three years C7.00 in the United States and The Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., Springfield. Ohio; Collier Publishing Company. Springfield, Ohio. U-SjV.. PosseeeionB, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil. Chile. Colombia, Changes in address should reach us five weeks in advance We stand in awe of the men behind Publishers of Collier's. Woman's Home Companion. Ihe Costa Rica, Cuba, Uominican Republic. Ecuador, El of the next issue dat«. Give both the old and new ad American Magazine. 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