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...current issue, LIFE reports on the ideas that went round & round. Samples: ¶Creativeness in Hollywood is stifled by U.S. theater owners, who control the industry, reap most of its profits, and want nothing from it but, in Mankiewicz's phrase, "400 items of salable merchandise every year." The creators may get their big chance when the Government finally splits theater ownership from production. ¶The moviemakers recognize that a low-budget "special audience" film, e.g., Home of the Brave, can turn a profit without a mass audience, but Hollywood is geared to supply the bigger audience, where...
Sorrowful Jones (Paramount), a remake of Damon Runyon's Little Miss Marker, turns out to be a major salvage operation. The original 1934 Hollywood version lifted Shirley Temple to stardom. The current version, though it has very little to do with Runyon, lifts Comedian Bob Hope out of an accumulated litter of silly scripts, props and costumes, and gives him a new grip on the U.S. public's funny bone...
...College rushed toward the close of academic year 1945-1949, the Dean's Office yesterday announced its last batch of prizes for the current session...
...current edition is a "war to peace" revision of the 1940 edition. Over 10,000 postcards went out last fall requesting address changes, and by April 35,000 had been returned. 7645 postcards have been due since 1940, and the Directory lists these 7645 men as "lost" alumni...
Aside from the novelty of watching Macready drop a couple of men in their tracks like deer in Sherwood Forest, Allegro is notable for only one thing. It was directed by Ted Tetzlaff, whose sensitive work in a current minor thriller called The Window entitles him to something better than such conveyor-belt assignments...