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...steelmakers whose strike-deferred projects are expected to boost capital spending 50% to 60% over last year. Republic Steel, for example, plans record spending of more than $155 million on new strip and plate mills and expansion of a plastic coating line for pipe. Said Treasurer W. B. Boyer: "Our program is being undertaken not so much to raise capacity as it is to increase efficiency...
...FRANKLIN BOYER...
...Leslie Stevens is one of the hottest writer-tycoons in or out of the smog. He is also one of Hollywood's new breed: the curious combination of corporation executive and creative artist that is taking over the town. On Broadway, Stevens' Marriage-Go-Round, with Charles Boyer and Claudette Colbert, is spinning briskly into its second season. The pilot shows for a couple of TV series are ready for production. The Pink Jungle, his new, Broadway-bound comedy about the cosmetics industry, is in rehearsal. And last week he was busy editing the film of Private Property...
...besides a highly touted rookie, Ernie Broglio. Hard-hitting Joe Cunningham (.312) is set at first as is Don Blasingame at second. There is a gaping hole at short which may have to be filled with Alex Grammas, who would have trouble hitting .300 in the Little Leagues. Ken Boyer, an almost-great, is a fixture at third...
Actually, the main trouble with the picture is the lack of a controlling sense of style in the acting-a common fault in Hollywood's period pieces. Actor Boyer, for instance, falls somewhere between Paris and Hollywood, but wherever it is, it is not New Orleans. And he seems understandably embarrassed by many of his lines-"Death! Ha! Whan eet come, speet een eets eye." Actress Bloom intrudes a British note, and Actor Heston, as a sweet-talking, milk-sopping Old Hickory with a phony Tennessee accent, makes just about the silliest of the screen's counterfeits...