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Last week major production companies, who still believe that the demand for less sexy pictures comes from a noisy minority, were prepared to accept the fact that cleaner pictures are, at least temporarily, necessary. Columbia's Vice President Jack Cohn voiced the opinion of the industry to his salesmen in Atlantic City: "This violent burst of condemnation is directed against something greater than the motion picture. . . . The motion picture reflects the thing against which the Crusaders inveigh-the tendencies of the times...
Columbia's No. 1 Director Frank Capra last season, produced two pictures, Lady for a Day and It Happened One Night, which provided Harry Cohn, Columbia's Production Chief, with sufficient capital for the most elaborate program in the company's history for next year: 48 pictures, 32 of them ambitious features. Frank Capra will direct Broadway Bill, in which Warner Baxter will appear at twice his usual salary...
Aids from the Andrew and J. Bayard Scholarships have been awarded to the following: Norman S. Altman 1L., of Bronx, New York; Herbert B. Cohn 1L., of New York, New York; Robert M. Estes 1L., of Manchester, New Hampshire; Hirsh Freed 1L., of Brooklyn, New York; Henry Gesmer 1L., of Quincy; Arnold G. Malkan 1L., of New York, New York; Wallace Mendelson 1L., of Chicago, Illinois; Herbert Peterfreund, 1L., of Glen Lyon, Pennsylvania; Hyman W. Rosenthal 1L., of Paterson, New Jersey; Wilbur R. Shook 1L., of Morristown, New Jersey; Philip D. Straffin 1L., of Campello; Lyman M. Tondel...
...together from newsreel shots, it parades for over an hour the electrifying facial mannerisms of Orator Mussolini (see cut) (TIME, March 20). The Dictator's crisp reason for shushing Mussolini Speaks: "Not timely enough"- all of the patched-together shots being perforce somewhat old. When Patcher-Together Jack Cohn sought to see II Duce in Rome, expecting praise, he was politely accorded the briefest audience, was not asked even to sit down...
Among Jews who waited too long in Germany is not numbered smart Emil Ludwig (né Cohn), best-selling biographer of Napoleon, Bismarck and Wilhelm II. He has had a Swiss home for years, skipped Germany just before Adolf Hitler seized the powers of Dictator. Last week Dr. Ludwig sailed into Manhattan on the sleek French liner Paris. With an air of detachment proper in so prosperous an exile as himself he warned Jews and other citizens of the world not to blind themselves to the fact that "Hitler suits the German character. . . . What is going on there...