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Booted. The most prevalent explanation was that Asahi Shimbun's Moscow correspondent, Takeo Kuba, had imperfectly translated Russian cablese KHRUSHCHEV ZAKONCHIL (has ended it), with which Tass had wound up its transmission of a Khrushchev speech. According to this theory, Kuba misread it as KHRUSHCHEV SKONCHALSIA (Khrushchev dead) and cabled the news forthwith. However, at week's end this explanation was exploded by a report from a German TV network that its Hamburg office had received a similar bogus message, save that it was signed "Britinform," cablese for the British Information Service in Bonn...
...judging from audience response, Gloria Film Co.'s Menschen in Hotel was a Kassenschlager (boxoffice hit). And to Gloria's greying, violet-eyed boss, Use ("Kuba") Kubaschewski, the payoff is all that matters. Hardly had the house lights gone down for the start of the show when the boss sneaked off to her theater-top penthouse to read more scripts, study attendance records, sign checks. At 49, canny Kuba is head of the hottest movie-production outfit in Germany. She has fought her way higher than any other woman in the movie industry-Hollywood included-has ever reached...
Homeland Corn. From the beginning, Kuba saw no sense in emulating the few great pictures of prewar Germany, e.g., M, Blue Angel, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. She specialized in Heimatschnulzen (homeland corn)-movies of rural love and village violence...
...that Gloria Films has never taken a penny of government subsidy, a rare record in postwar Germany. Its catalogue of 23 films represents only 12% of the German movies now in circulation, but its annual gross ($35,850,000) comes to 30% of the income from German film production. Kuba herself boasts a villa on Lake Starnberg with two cabin cruisers and a speedboat, a villa on the Riviera, a chalet in Switzerland, a stable of expensive cars, a Skye terrier named Putzi and a black poodle named Wutzi. It is all confirmation of her own straightforward formula for success...
...grain collecting campaign" (TIME, Oct. 28), 50 "kulaks" (rich peasants) were executed in various parts of the Soviet Union. This crime of crimes is committed in three ways: 1) by failing to sow all one's grain fields (a shameful hotbed of this vice is the district of Kuba, where only 4% of the fields were sown last Spring); 2) by refusing to sell grain to the Government collector at the price fixed in Moscow; 3) by inciting others to such "opposition...