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Distrustful of all change, Hollywood was not sufficiently impressed by Becky Sharp to do more than wait watchfully for the plunge into color which the industry admits is eventually inevitable. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine may be the starting gun. Producers Sam Goldwyn, David Selznick, Alexander Korda, Darryl Zanuck and Walter Wanger, who last week transferred his producing company from Paramount to United Artists, all have one color production on their current schedules; Pioneer Pictures, Inc. has four. Last week when The Trail of the Lonesome Pine broke records for an opening night at Manhattan's Paramount Theatre...
...Cameron is not only Cavalcade's editor but half its staff. The other half is Publisher William James Brittain, a rising Fleet Streeter who was once assistant editor of Lord Beaverbrook's blatant Sunday Express. Impartial observers thought that on merit Brittain's Cavalcade would outlast Korda's News Review. But Publisher Korda was confident that he would be publishing both sheets within three months...
...Ghost Goes West (London Films). Rene Clair's first film in English, made at Alexander Korda's London studio from a screen play by Robert Sherwood, is a satiric fantasy notable for the qualities of grace, charm and imaginative wit that have long distinguished its director's work in French. Produced by a Hungarian, written by an American, directed by a Frenchman, and acted by an English-speaking cast, it has the homogeneity of style, the smooth polish often conspicuously lacking in its Hollywood counterparts. Its most serious fault is an occasional lethargy of pace, which...
...determined not to go to Hollywood, where, far from being No. 1 man in the industry, he doubted whether he would even be allowed to run his own Unit, Director Clair last autumn broke his own precedent to the extent of going to England to work for Producer Alexander Korda. U. S. Author Sherwood wrote the script of The Ghost Goes West, but in other respects it was a characteristic Clair production. Producer Korda, whose advice he might well have welcomed, scrupulously refrained from interference,, saw to it that Clair had a free hand...
...lapse into barbarism presented by John Collier in Full Circle to the monotonously sanitary and inhuman order satirized by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. Last week Herbert George Wells offered yet another conceivable fate for mankind with Things to Come, a scenario which London Films's Alexander Korda is now transmuting into a cinema. In his previous guesses (The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine), Mr. Wells has pictured the world depopulated by interplanetary warfare, dominated by a monstrous chicken, consumed by bugs, perishing in foul air. In Things to Come mankind endures 30 years...