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...Arthur M. Loew, 59, stepped out as director and chairman of Loew's Inc., largest U.S. movie producer (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and one of the largest theater chains, but will remain as president of Loew's International, the corporation's foreign subsidiary. By quitting before the annual stockholders' meeting Feb. 28, Loew, son of Founder Marcus Loew, hoped to head off a long-brewing proxy fight (TIME, Nov. 12) with a dissident group of stockholders led by Canadian Contractor Joseph Tomlinson, Loew's largest individual stockholder (250,000 shares). To appease the Tomlinson faction...
...Guys and Dolls (Goldwyn...
...Sharkfighters (Samuel Goldwyn Jr.; United Artists...
...Sharkfighters (Samuel Goldwyn Jr.; United Artists). "Sharks," says Lieut. Commander Victor Mature with some petulance as this picture begins, "got lousy table manners." It seems that some unmannerly man-eaters dined on the commander's crew when their destroyer sank in the early days of World War II, and now Mature is grimly determined to make every carchariid in creation pay the reckoning. Assigned to accelerate research on shark repellents. Mature moves in on a sluggish school of scientists like a shovelnose on shrimp. Everything from poison to ultrasonics has been tried, but only copper acetate and octopus juice...
...seed in a play at Brooklyn's P.S. 149. Within 25 years, the little seed had sprouted into a big U.S. buffoon called Danny Kaye. Comedian Kaye mugged, mimicked and gitgatgittled through vaudeville and such hit Broadway shows as Lady in the Dark, was carefully nourished in Sam Goldwyn's Hollywood hothouse, and had his own radio show. For ten years of playing to packed houses, he never ventured to play the biggest house of all-television. But Entertainer Kaye found reason to want TV's vast stage as much as TV wanted him, and the engagement...