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Americans at Work (Sat. 7 p. m. CBS). Walt Disney's craftsmen explain what makes Mickey Mouse & Co. click...
...terms. Mr. Lewis neatly suppressed that move. Then he permitted every union president worth mentioning, Bridges & Curran included, to parade to the platform. They upheld his position that C. I. O.'s industrial unions cannot risk dismemberment by joining any body dominated by A. F. of L. craftsmen. Said Electrical Worker James Barren Carey: "The C. I. O. wants peace˜without pieces." High Politics. Fitted into the new C. I. O. jigsaw are such diverse unions as Mr. Lewis' essentially conservative United Mine Workers, Sidney Hillman's liberal Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Harry Bridges' radical International...
Because Mozart was one of music's most fastidious craftsmen, the deep human and emotional qualities of his music have often been overlooked. This week the noted English Critic Walter James Turner publishes a critical biography of him.* With a hitherto untranslated collection of letters to draw upon, Author Turner shows Mozart to be a lusty, even ribald character, with a stout heart, a lively sympathy for his fellow man-and woman. Reminding his readers that Mozart's generation was also Goethe's and William Blake's, that its spirit was in fact romantic and revolutionary...
Only major effort of the cinema industry's craftsmen to grab the profits of their own pictures was United Artists, which, formed in 1919, long since passed out of their hands. Last fortnight Hollywood got fair warning of another effort along similar lines when Agent Myron Selznick, who makes about $1,000,000 a year, announced that he would use some of it to help Director Ernst Lubitsch launch a company to be known as Ernst Lubitsch Productions, Inc. From it Director Lubitsch would draw a share of profits instead of a salary. Last week the Selznick system...
...screenwriters with millionaires' incomes how to rewrite the classics they are translating into the topical vernacular, photographers where to point cameras as big as limousines, art directors to fabricate rooms, streets or cities. If producers are top dogs of the cinema as an industry, directors are its top craftsmen. Their pay runs from $200 a week (for beginners) to what Columbia pays Capra for turning out one or two films a year...