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Boss Petrillo's favorite contention, that "canned music" has caused widespread unemployment among musicians, got harsher treatment. Said the panel flatly: "No present important unemployment of musicians exists. Two union members out of three do not depend on music for a livelihood. The union's criterion, that a member not working full time on music is unemployed, is untenable." Also, the panel concluded after 1,970 pages of testimony, radio and the phonograph record probably have not decreased employment...
...Havoc (M.G.M.) has lost its most blood-chilling cries-the offscreen screams of the U.S. nurses on Bataan surrendering to the Japanese, which were a high point of the stage play. The cryless Cry Havoc is a less sensational So Proudly We Hail (TIME, Sept. 27). It is harsher and more perfervid than Paramount's star-struck version of nurses on Bataan...
Presumably because of the libel laws, Cross confines his harsher remarks about the House of Commons to anonymities. He noted: "One man who is alleged to have a discharge from an insane asylum, an M.P. who was tossed out of the Press Gallery for drunkenness, a fellow who once belonged to the Nazi party for some reason or other, and . . . the M.P. who is indebted to the Japanese for campaign funds...
...support, French North Africa was not ready to fall into De Gaulle's arms. A visit now would divert the energies of generals absorbed in the climactic phase of the Tunisian campaign. Previously, and in vain, Catroux had pointed out these things to General de Gaulle. Higher and harsher authorities finally...
...They are harsher in the movie than in the novel or the play, and so is their dramatic impact. In the movie (scenario by Nunnally Johnson, who also did Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath) the camera witnesses many important events that take place offstage in the play. The picture shows the Nazi invaders' confident march into the mining village of Selvik, their mowing down of a pitiful dozen of Norwegian soldiers, the villagers' terror and confusion. Then, in the sharp language of action rather than introspective comment, it describes the villagers' growing hatred and resistance...