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She-Wolf (Universal). In the last years of the last century, when U. S. millionaires were relatively uncommon, one of the richest, most erratic, most spectacular was Hetty Green. Starting life as Harriet Howland Robinson of New Bedford, Mass., she inherited nine million dollars from her father, a ship-owning...
Like most cinemas dealing with finance, this one reveals no great understanding of Wall Street methods, maintains an unnecessarily pop-eyed attitude toward the interesting but not incomprehensible maneuvers of stockmarket operators. On the other hand, it conveys the clear impression of a character who, if not much like the...
Never has discussion of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff died down. Soon after it was passed, many big exporters, notably automobile men (biggest manufacturing industry), wailed their fears of foreign reprisals. Most drastic and clean-cut fulfillment of these fears came when Canada, biggest U. S. customer, frankly upped all her...
Le Million (Tobis). If any early cinemas are revived in 1960, they are likely to be those primitive comedies whose directors, dazzled by the speed and flexibility of the new medium, made their characters participate in comic pursuits, prolonged and exaggerated through a series of wild mishaps. The cinema has...
Now Laemmle lords it in his own Universal City, outskirt of Hollywood, proudly watching his son, Carl Jr., turn out lavish super-cinemas (All Quiet on the Western Front, The King of Jazz). He remembers with a grin earlier Laemmle productions such as the 988-ft. Hiawatha. Of the human...