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Playwright Clifford (Golden Boy) Odets, on his return to Manhattan after five years in gilded Hollywood, told readers of the New York Times why he was back: ". . . Is it still news that a Hollywood movie is usually born on the stone floor of a bank? And that this celluloid dragon, scorching to death every human fact in its path, must muscle its way back to its natal cave, its mouth full of dimes and nickels? . . . The Hollywood film exists only as the celebration of cold, canny (not so canny!) investment, with the resultant desire to make every movie as accessible...
Veritas Films offers students a chance to be common on the Commons and to have their antics eternally recorded on celluloid. President William Alden '50, said this is the final mob scene on their shooting schedule and that they are in need of old-clothed extras to act as kiteflying factory workers...
...with the coming of Spring, preparations are underway for a timely filming of the movie's only love scene. Alden explains that this "tender bit of romanticism" will be immortalized on celluloid within the Boston Common when character "X" (male) kisses character "Y" (female). Theres no point in naming the stars, according to Alden, since the movie has no running dialogue...
Gnarled police mitts tightened around their billies when four limousines screeched to a halt in front of the director's critical eye. Satisfying neither the director nor the cops, beefy celluloid "capitalists' then piled in and out of their equipages all morning...
...regarded television as a potential rival, to be watched warily, were now hustling to make special movies for television. Paramount Pictures was out in front. Already owner of two stations, it was planning to film television programs (plays, quiz programs, etc.) and distribute them over a coast-to-coast "celluloid network...