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...last week, Theodora had more than 750 regular customers, including Humphrey Bogart, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. At $1.25 for a five-gallon bottle, Theodora sells 10,000 gallons a month in the Los Angeles area alone and sales are increasing at the rate of 1,000 gallons a month. Theodora is mapping plans to distribute the water over an eleven state Western area, hopes soon to tap a nationwide market. Says she: while the stuff is fine for children's teeth, "it also goes wonderful with Scotch...
Tokyo Joe (Columbia) is a seedy melodrama jerry-built from bits & pieces of half a dozen old Humphrey Bogart thrillers. The movie's weary, grey air is due to its stolid dependence on what has become a Bogart stencil; as a scowling rebel who just wants to be left alone by laws, red tape and good works, half-villain Hero Bogart is repeatedly maneuvered by his better nature into warring against evil. In his recent Key Largo, the malevolent-browed hero blocked the return of Capone-style gangsterism to the U.S., and in the soon-to-be-released Chain...
...film has enough seamy passion, sordid heroism, and familiar props (a smoky nightclub like the one in Casablanca, repeated torch-singing of a Tin Pan Alley tune) to make it a caricature of a Bogart film. Wearing his old trench coat and mouthing a cigarette. Bogart returns to Tokyo after the war to start a small freight airline backed by a blank-faced racketeer (oldtime silent Cinemactor Sessue Hayakawa). By the time the comic-book plot has run its course, Bogart has saved his ex-wife (Florence Marly) from exposure as a Tokyo Rose, stopped the infiltration of war criminals...
Unfortunately, the picture is not saved by the presence in the Bogart role of a tired, beat-up-looking actor who no longer seems to project the hard combustibility that he made famous. But Director Stuart Heisler accomplished one notable feat: by expert trick photography, impressionistic lighting and a tense atmosphere, he gives the impression that the movie was filmed entirely in the streets and houses of Tokyo...
Safely back in Hollywood after flooring a glamor girl who wanted his panda doll in a Manhattan nightclub (TIME, Oct. 10), Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart reminisced a bit. The judge who dismissed the girl's suit, he thought, was "a nice guy-the Frank Morgan type." But Bogart decided that the real hero of the incident was Bogart, who had "wised some people up about the notion that they can push celebrities around." He added: "I'd say it compared to the Dreyfus case. You might report that I struck a blow for freedom, not to mention...