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...this last and most troublous question of all, two of the oldest and foxiest independent moviemakers last week gave an answer that may give other independents an idea. To insure a Broadway outlet for their productions, Producers Samuel Goldwyn* and David Selznick leased Manhattan's famed, 40-year-old, 1,140-seat Astor Theater from the owner-operator, City Investing Co. Major C. I. request:" Goldwyn & Selznick keep the Astor as well supplied with pictures as did former tenant Loew...
...inevitable outcome of the growth of. the movies. Nevertheless, this close harmony has caused the old & new independents to cry "monopoly." The U.S. Department of Justice has heard them, and filed an application aimed at forcing the big distributors to sell their theaters within three years, Goldwyn's The Princess and the Pirate, made last summer, has shown in many a U.S. tank town, and in India and China. But, because of the tight grip of M.G.M., 20th Century-Fox, RKO, Paramount and Warner Brothers and their theater chains on Manhattan's first run houses...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's screen presentation of Lieutenant Ted Lawson's bestseller, "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo," is a sincere and restrained record of heroism in this war. Director Mervyn LeRoy wisely lets the dramatic quality of Major General Doolittle's remarkable feat develop naturally, unmarred by overdone Hollywood heroics...
...unless Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer wakes up to the fact that even the sweetest flower of spring--or the biggest box office in cinema citizenry--may sicken and wilt like the leaves of yesteryear, Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon will soon be out looking for employment of a different sort...
...Princess and the Pirate (Goldwyn; RKO) takes shovel-nosed Bob Hope to the bloodiest corners of the Spanish Main in the spirit of unabashed poltroonery that has become his principal stock in trade. From the moment he pokes his head through an introductory title to announce that he plays a coward to the moment when he gazes apprehensively at a gibbet being erected in his honor and murmurs queasily, "Slumber lumber," Hope makes it clear that his gallantry is mighty small-caliber. When his beautiful co-captive (Virginia Mayo) on the pirate ship snatches away the protection of her wide...