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...wanted to buy control of the 110-year-old Honolulu Advertiser, he also in tended to make it the main member of his newspaper chain; he even bought an apartment in Hawaii. By last week, though, Copley was convinced that Advertiser Publisher Thurston Twigg-Smith, 45, and Editor George Chaplin, 52, who between them owned about 60% of the paper's stock, were not about to sell out. To them, the quick, large profit offered by Copley meant far less than the continuing pleasure of putting out a successful paper...
...merger is important for United Artists too. Chairman Robert S. Benjamin and President Arthur B. Krim, who form a kind of Alphonse-and-Gaston partnership, in 15 years have sponsored one of the most remarkable comebacks in show business. Organized in 1919 by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Charlie Chaplin and D. W. Griffith, United was losing $100,000 a week by 1951. Lawyers Benjamin and Krim (law partners of Louis Nizer) took over, encouraged talented independent producers to make good films for United to bankroll and distribute. The list has since included such successes as Marty, High Noon...
Marlene Dietrich in von Sternberg's "The Blue Angel," and Chaplin's "Shoulder Arms...
...Chaplin's "City Lights," and Buster Keaton's "Cops...
...lively young set through a mist of weary Old World romanticism. The plot loses its cool at the outset by dwelling on the miracle of love at first sight between Castelnuovo and a shy medical student, played by Christine Delaroche, a movie newcomer in the Susan Strasberg-Geraldine Chaplin tradition. Shortly, boy gets girl, girl gets pregnant, boy gets nervous. The rest of their time is spent agonizing over an imminent abortion while the camera strives to fill every pause with poetry. Young World is a perfectly well-made, perfectly dull movie-and a rather embarrassing one, coming from...