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...Trapeze (Hecht-Lancaster; United Artists). Less than a century after Phineas Taylor Barnum raised it high, the Big Top is folding all over the U.S. (TIME, May 28), and the Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze may soon pass into history with the flagpole sitter and the Human Fly. Trapeze is an attempt by Producer-Actor Burt Lancaster-who got his start in show business as an acrobat-to give the sons of the leotard what may prove to be their last fling in the big time...
TIME April 2 erred in stating [Harold Hecht and Burt Lancaster] made Marty because we "needed a flop to write off as a tax loss." Indeed, had Marty failed, we'd have had nothing to write it off against, because it was optimistically made by a specially organized Marty partnership, which owned no other properties...
...HAROLD HECHT New York City...
...film than they are in fact: so pat a plot raised the question whether two hearts were meeting or merely two dazzling luminaries being drawn to each other. The gala celebrations at Monaco last week began to sound like a Graustark script cynically brought up to date by Ben Hecht. Or so it seemed in the beginning...
Died. Charles MacArthur, 60, newsman, playwright (coauthor with Ben Hecht of The Front Page) and husband of Actress Helen Hayes; of an internal hemorrhage; in Manhattan (seeTHEATER...