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...expenses just as deeply. Said Harry: "A picture is just an expensive dream. It's just as easy to dream for $700,000 as for $1,500,000." Production Boss Jack Warner picked topical stories out of the headlines, produced such smash hits as Public Enemy and Little Caesar. He tackled many ticklish social issues which other studios avoided, such as bad penal systems (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang), lynching (They Won't Forget), labor conditions (Black Fury). With Disraeli, the Warners started a cycle of film biographies; with 42nd Street, set the style...
...Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK On a pink official form...
...gained much. Forced to rely for support upon their own congregations rather than on the state, the churches which in Europe had been over-institutionalized tended in the U.S. to become lay churches, warm and democratic. Freed of dependence on temporal governments, they gained new power to discriminate between Caesar and God. And the sects, on their part, gained something of the responsibility and saner ordering of the spirit for which the Apostle Paul pleaded so eloquently with the Corinthians...
Superb Tailoring. What kept the huge audience rooted to its chairs was a modern morality play combining elements of such medieval pageants as St. George and the Dragon and such movies as Little Caesar...
Ferrer's show, aimed at listeners who were discourages in their youth by a "day and dusty classroom introduction to the master," offers a grab-bag variety of Shakespearean scenes, soliloquies, entire plays. For radio serial lovers, there is a four-installment version of Julius Caesar complete with synopses ("Amid the carnival-like entry of Caesar, the procession passes through the streets of Rome, leaving behind Brutus, who ponders Caesar's behavior, and Cassius, who waxes lean and hungry with petty resentment..."). Amatuer talent scouts had a chance to vote for the best of three recorded Hamlets (John...