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SHREWD new diagnosis of one of the chronic complaints from which Hollywood suffers has been made by John Mason Brown, the Saturday Review of Literature’s critic. He saw the British production Brief Encounter, liked its lack of glamour and said so in these terms: "The heroine . . . though pretty, is not a travelling salesman’s idea of Venus. Hers is an interesting face, not a vacant one. . .. Her hair looks as if she could have brushed and combed it herself, and not as if it were her habit to have a permanent after every cigarette. She gets along... . nicely . . . . without mink coats, a swan bed, a custom-built Cadil- | SGP Ee "Hollywood . . . . refuses to realise .... that comparative poverty can be the mother of invention. Its executives .... continue to go their old Lobster-Supper-Charlie way, delighting in the pitiful ostentations ‘of the nouveauxriches. . . . They can never leave well enough alone... ."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 391, 20 December 1946, Page 33
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147OVER-STUFFED POCKETBOOKS New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 391, 20 December 1946, Page 33
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