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...modern, stylishly bohemian society in which it is set, this naughty old story (from Louis Verneuil's moth-eaten play, Jealousy, recently revived on Broadway as Obsession) seems doubly ridiculous. It is impossible to believe that 1) Bette would try to conceal her past, or 2) Henreid could be deceived for a minute...
...Canadian steaks could be eaten only in Canada. Most tourists could not take them across the line into the U.S. Reason: meat is rationed in Canada to one coupon (good for i to 3 Ibs., depending on the bone content) per person per week, and tourists had to stay at least seven days to get ration coupons. Tourists who tried to smuggle in meat were nabbed at customs. (One U.S. citizen who tried to take back $110 worth of meat had to give the meat away.) New York reporters, on meat-hunting assignments in Canada, found "a paradise of pork...
...This moth-eaten plot, nimbly performed, takes on a restful, unpretentious air. Most rewarding performance is Menjou's as the crusty, fussy bachelor, who finally works as hard bailing his "daughters" out of jams as any real, doting father would. Most unusual performance: the boy friend of one of the salesladies, played-mostly at the piano, fortunately-by Eugene List, the G.I. pianist who entertained Truman, Churchill, Stalin and other notables at the Potsdam Conference...
...movie rights constitute income, not property, and that consequently these receipts could not be taxed at the low rate for capital gains, the government moved in, reviewed old sales, and cleaned up. But if the writer dies, his work magically becomes property and his beneficiaries receive an inheritance eaten away by property taxes...
...Times reporter, bent on spoiling the Post-Dispatch's exclusive story, went on a private safari which bagged the lions while Wright and his party were eating lunch. Three months later, Wright tried again. This time he bought a couple of "old, vicious" lions. They were so moth-eaten they refused to leave the camp site when let out of their cages...