Word: furore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department of Justice, scared by the political furor over portal pay, asked that the claims be thrown out, on the grounds that they were trifling. (The Supreme Court had advised that all "trifling" amounts be ignored.) The Detroit court agreed. So three weeks ago Lawyer Lamb appealed, starting the case up to the Supreme Court again. The Department of Justice, hoping that the Court would reverse itself and kill portal pay for good, obligingly asked for a quick hearing...
...David 0. Selznick's Technicolored Duel in the Sun was running simultaneously in two theaters. Local reviewers found the extravaganza a titillating blend of wild oats and tame, well-worn plot, in which virtue emerged triumphant, but low-bodiced vice seemed to have all the fun. Nevertheless, the furor was up to Selznick's expectations-if not quite the kind of furor he had paid his advertising money...
...furor might also interfere with Selznick's more important plans to form his own distributing company (TIME, Dec. 23). Unlike Hughes, to whom movies are just a sideline, Selznick was in no position to capitalize, publicity-wise, on the objections of church organizations. Theater owners might refuse to show Duel rather than risk their displeasure, a decision which would cost Selznick about $2,000,000 in New York City alone...
...Canadians would regard this as a foothold for U.S. aggression. Nevertheless, the Canadians, who refused Britain permission to establish R.A.F. bases in the Dominion as late as 1938, want to go slow. (Actually the question of stationing British troops in Canada would probably raise much more furor.) They want to be sure there is no infringement of Dominion sovereignty...
...twins, Olivia de Havilland does a neat job of keeping everyone, including the audience, properly baffled. Lew Ayres, who left Hollywood under a wartime cloud in 1942 when he registered as a conscientious objector, makes his first postwar screen appearance. Whether because of the fan and exhibitor furor about his C.O. status, or because of his 22 months Pacific service as a noncombatant Medical Corps sergeant and chaplain's assistant, the Ayres face and screen personality have undergone a startling change. With little remaining resemblance to the confused kid of All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), or even...