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Hollywood's answer to Harriet Stowe has an antebellum South where slaves sing in King Cotton's fields, and dance joyfully to the amusement of the kindly massas from the Big House. The South will not endure the North's dictation, and so her sons ride off from Wingate Halls garlanded with tears and cheers, to christen the Stars and Bars in Yankee blood at Bull Run. Though the war ends with Lee's majestic surrender to sloppy old Grant, the wounded sons return home to begin a spirited restitching of their tattered Dixie-land until Lincoln--brave, tall...
...been virtually silent almost since the silent movie days. In the Kling Studios where Charlie Chaplin made The Gold Rush, and on lots that twinkled with the names of Theda Bara, Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd and Janet Gaynor, TV now grinds out commercials and films-Burns & Allen, Ozzie & Harriet...
...Opposed. If Montana voters approve a constitutional amendment to allow districts to increase their bonding limit, the state will have no trouble. Says Superintendent of Public Instruction Harriet Miller: "Until we exhaust our resources and abilities, we should not ask for federal help." South Carolina, which has put up 8,000 classrooms since 1951, neither needs nor wants federal help. In 1955 both North Dakota and Nebraska school officials went on record for the White House Conference on Education as definitely opposed...
Good Listeners. "If a joke lays a complete egg," says George Burns, "we might put in two or three people to carry it along." The laugh canner's purest technique (Ozzie & Harriet) is to skip the fallible human element altogether and, as the trade has it, "lay the laugh track in cold." Says Producer Alex Gottlieb: "A good film editor can lay in a laugh track from the library that comes out sounding more authentic than live laughter. After all, people aren't expert laughers, but the sound effects man is an expert listener...
...HARRIET VAN WAGENEN...