Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Western Union (20th Century-Fox) is another episode in Hollywood's saga of U. S. industrial evolution. Like Wells Fargo and Union Pacific, Western Union deals with the westward march of pioneer communications. More Western than Union, it touches lightly on the telegraph, rides away full-gallop into a rousing tale of Indians, cattle rustlers, bad men battling on the prairie...
...four rehearsals, Papa Stock put the businessmen through many a bad moment. He told the basses: "You sound like a bunch of old ladies." He bawled out Dr.J. Peerman Nesselrod for offside piccolo peeps. Thanks to Dr. Stock's business like drilling, in the orchestra's 20th-birthday concert the businessmen tackled Dvorak's New World Symphony and a sheaf of shorter pieces (including a Symphonic Waltz by Papa Stock) with a precision which other amateur groups could well envy...
Hollywood still was making hopeful gestures toward Latin America last week. In production were half a dozen films with Latin backgrounds, including M. G. M.'s The Life of Simon Bolivar with Robert Taylor, 20th Century-Fox's remake of Blood and Sand with Tyrone Power, Paramount's Mexican story, Rurales. In Washington, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics, conferred with John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, who announced a new promotion drive for U. S. pictures in Latin America, "based solely on the presentation of entertainment films...
Hudson's Bay (20th Century-Fox), a pedestrian exploration of the beginnings of the great fur company, is mostly talking and walking. The rest is mostly Man Mountain Laird Cregar, a newcomer to the movies, and Paul Muni, badly in need of a shave and with a French accent so realistic that it is practically unintelligible...
...Joseph Jorkens). But his taste is less for the dewy groves of dancing pixies than for the chasms and black alleyways where fiends hang out. Nor is this the madness of James Thurber (The Owl in the Attic, Fables for Our Time), smelling of neurosis, manic depression and similar 20th-Century ills. Collier offers a fuller-blooded evil often conjured up with appropriate 17th-Century English suggesting the grimmer scenes of King Lear. From that play he plucked titles for two former books: Defy the Foul Fiend and Tom's Acold. Author Collier, 39, has hitherto rusticated in Hampshire...