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...that Fantasound has left Boston forever, as they tell us, the Majestic is continuing to play host to the unusual in entertainment with "Citizen Kane," the much-publicized debut of Orson Welles which has been boycotted by the Hearst papers ever since Louella Parsons noted a likeness between the careers of her boss and the protagonist. And the ex-boy genius has done it again, producing a picture the like of which has ne'er been seen before hereabouts...
From the very beginning of his saga of Charles Foster Kane, when he plunges straight into the story after the title is flashed on the screen, with none of the usual dreary lists of associate producers and wardrobe mistresses, Welles kicks over the time-tested customs of movie-making, employing unusual angle shots, unique lights and shadows, and dramatic flashbacks--a device which has rarely been so effectively exploited...
...only merit of this extraordinary picture. One of Hollywood's weaknesses in the past has been its inability to develop character with the insight of a good stage-play. But Welles builds his picture around a character study of his central figure, showing every side of the complex Kane. The picture evolves from the attempts of the producer of the March of Time (News on the March in the film) to find the significance of the millionaire Kane's dying word, "Rosebud." As the reporter questions the people who knew him best, trying to link together the scattered fragments...
...this suggested a renewed spring drive by the Hearst press against Orson Welles, and it coincided strangely with the release dates of Mr. Welles's film, Citizen Kane. The first drive had for its objective the suppression of the movie on the grounds that it looked too much like an unflattering portrait of Citizen Hearst...
...muscles of the Hollywood hierarchy were sufficiently frightening. At an RKO sales meeting in Chicago last week, exhibitors were told that no decision had been reached on Kane. Then, at week's end, word leaked out of Hollywood that Mr. Hearst, who still hadn't seen the film, had been approached by an unhappy RKO stockholder. Mr. Hearst admitted he really didn't care whether the film was released or not. Chances looked good that after an RKO directors' meeting in Manhattan this week, a decision would at long last be made to release the picture...