Evening star., 1952-10-29

high quality Of the film editing.
1t almost seems impossible that
the films came first and the script
second. Producer Solomon and
his staff couldn't have done a
better job Of matching film clips
for continuity and dramatic ef-
feet if they had gone out on To-
cation and planned all of their
shots and camera angles in ad-
vance.
In the first chapter this is
especially noticeable in the sharp
contemplating of views of lonely
conveys braving the sub menace
with scenes showing victorious
Nazi sub crews being given heroes
welcomes. In the Victory at Sea"
chapter which you can see next
Sunday, this sharp editing is most
effective in blending Japanese and
American films taken on Decem-
Der z. 1941. These, which you
haven't seen before, will give you
a clearer impression than any,
thing yet of how it was that dark
day at Pear Harbor.
The Richard Rodgers musical
score. incidentally, is not the
least of the merits of Victory
at Sea-" if any is least. The man
at NBC who first thought of
Summoning him for the task was
inspired that day. Rodgers has
come up with no mere mood music
for background melody. His
Victory at Sea" score is fresh,
Unhackneyed and dramatic. 1t
never overshadows but always
SHARPLY accents the action on the
screen.
There probably is more which
might be said of this praiseworthy
effort, but this should give you
the idea. You'd better sample
Victory at Sea" before you turn
the TV set in on a home movie
protector.
NEW BOSS - Studio One"
(WTOP-TV-Monday, 10 p.mD,
which has had a couple of cork
ing shows this season if some
Ilapses. is getting a new producer.
its third. Fletcher Markle is to
replace the resigning Donald
Davis, who last season replaced
Worthington Miner. His first
play. on November 10, will be the
comedy adapted from Guy Kill
patric'S Mr.. Glencannon stories
if he follows the schedule already
set up by Davis.
This will not be the 31-year-old
Markle's first Studio One" as
ISOLATION. When the radio series
first went on the air in April, 1947,
Markle was the producer director,
guiding the show to the winning
of a Peabody Award. He first
entered American radio in 1916
and rapidly distinguished himself
as a writer and director for the
famed Columbia Workshop"
He also produced CHS radios
Ihour-long Ford Theater" and has
turned couple of movie chores,
lone Canadian, one American. The
former, made in 1945, was Fare
well to Britain" which Markle
wrote and appeared in. The
American film was "JigsaW."
which he produced with Franchot
Tone in the starring role.
Markle got his radio start at a
comparatively tender age, direct
ling and starring in a 65-week
series of one-hour plays for the
Canadian Broadcasting Corp. He
did several other drama series for
CBC and a turn in the RCAF be-
fore coming to the United States
and CHS. -...T
SCOOP!-The Columbia Broad
casting System, by the way, is 60
ing to score the news beat of the
year next week, unless a New
York publicity man has rocks in
his head or his typewriter. There
lis a note in the mail containing
synopses of Studio One" plays
for November. The program
scheduled for Monday, November
3. it reports. "will be pre-empted.
e. by the election returns" That
giant electronic brain named Uni
vac is really something. Or maybe
this is just overconf1dence.