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...Paris' Church of St. Eustache dutifully confessed that he had composed it in his spare time (TIME, Mar. 24, 1952). Widely performed in Paris, the Mass reveals Composer Martin, now 42, as a synthesizer whose sense of drama, love of trumpet and organ fanfares would do credit to filmdom's finest talents...
...TIME [Aug. 9], the English author, J. B. Priestley, in his comments on the new sadism, explains the matter quite thoroughly, except that the British do not make a cult of masculinity, as we do ... In America, however, grandmaws and tiny tots alike throng to the movies, where filmdom's masterminds charitably make room for a nice, big torture scene" in color . . . After all, the young punks share in our 3% annual rise in productivity and have more cars, more money, more switchknives, and more idle time to read and re-enact the immortal works of Mickey Spillane...
...Gimmicks. Not all of filmdom's new gimmicks turned out so well. Most moviemen were agreed that 3-D is dead. But 3-D had left some benefits behind. Said M-G-M Production Boss Dore Schary: "The defeating factor was the eyeglasses. But 3-D was . . . responsible for the upturn in the movie business . . . It showed that the people wanted something new and would...
...Pictures Living It Up (Paramount) is a screen version of Hazel Flagg, the Broadway musical, which was in turn a retuning of filmdom's famous Bronx cheer for Manhattan, Nothing Sacred (1937) Jerry Lewis now plays Carole Lombard's movie part. Alas, Carole was prettier. She was also funnier. And Janet Leigh, playing the old Fredric March part, adds body to the fun but no flavor. Somewhere along the production line the rasp has been strained out of the raspberry, but what's left is still the pleasantest session with Jerry Lewis and Partner Dean Martin...
...heart ailment; in his home town, Sullivan, Ind. Resigning as Postmaster General, he accepted Hollywood's offer to let him wipe clean the sin-filled screen (at $100,000 a year), forestalled a widespread public demand for state censorship. No czar, wily Will Hays became U.S. filmdom's No. 1 booster (and whipping boy), helped draw up prim production and advertising codes, closely regulated moviemaking from story idea to exhibition. After 23 years, he abdicated in 1945, turned the Hays Office over to Eric Johnston, went home to Indiana to practice...