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After eight months of marriage, Marion Davies, onetime actress and friend of the late William Randolph Hearst, filed suit for divorce from her merchant-mariner husband, Capt. Horace Brown. Two days later, Columnist Hedda Hopper reported "the strangest reconciliation in Hollywood's history." Brown's story to Hedda: "I don't know why she took me back, because I'm a beast. I bought a monkey as a pet, and the monkey bit her. I pulled the phone out by the roots. I went down to her sister Rose's house and shot...
...their works are reproduced opposite. Dufy's 41 pictures, dating back to 1904, prove for the umpteenth time his vintage quality. Partly crippled by arthritis, as Renoir was, he permits nothing but ease and gaiety to show in his work, the same effect that Renoir always achieved. Hopper's 20 contributions are comparatively dour, and less deft, but their directness and monumentality may help earn him a place in history next to the two great masters of American painting, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Max Gubler's 42 paintings turn the Swiss pavilion into a sunlit peak...
...watch a spy story. By shooting old situations from new angles, Hopper sustains the high key of suspense, set at the outset, until the country and its morals are rescued in the end. It is a thoroughly enjoyable picture, in the same way the Curse You, Jack Dalton was a thoroughly play in '02, and for the same reasons...
Through Newcomer Jerry Hopper's direction, The Atomic City has a headlong pace and an on-the-spot realism with scenes shot around Los Angeles, Santa Fe and Los Alamos. Edge-of-the-seat sequence: the FBI's helicopter rescue of the kidnaped boy from the precipitous Puye Indian ruins near Los Alamos in a dizzying, cliff-hanging climax...
...have to know our Allies," Hopper stated. "We've got to have people who will hunt tigers with us." Saying that we lost our natural allies in enemy countries in the last World War by saturation bombing techniques, he added, "I believe that the atom bomb should not have been dropped...