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...Jackie Robinson Story (Eagle-Lion) tells how the Brooklyn Dodgers' second baseman struggled to make good as the first Negro to play openly in big-league baseball. It might have been a powerful movie stating the case for the U.S. Negro in terms that combined authenticity, drama and the irresistible appeal of an underdog's courageous fight to ultimate triumph. Fumbling, overtactful treatment has reduced it to considerably less. But the emotional potential of the film's raw material is so high that no ineptitude by the producers can keep the sparks entirely off the screen...
...Pathe Industries, Inc. Galbreath thus got control of six buildings (including the 52-story Tower) worth an estimated $30 million and with a net income (before taxes) of about $2,250,000 a year. For Bob Young, who needed the cash badly for his money-losing Eagle Lion movie company, the transaction was an even better deal. The Terminal buildings were only a small part of the vast Van Sweringen empire. Young had bought the whole empire for only...
...Sundowners (Eagle-Lion) is a better-than-routine Technicolored western. Its chief claim to note: it gives his first movie role to John Barrymore Jr., 17, son of the late Great Profile and silent screen beauty Dolores Costello. In a minor part as Jeff Cloud, kid brother of Hero Tom Cloud (Robert Sterling), young John plays with restraint and frequently bears a striking likeness, both in full-face and profile, to his famous father. But his features are too finely chiseled and his acting too low-keyed for all the blood & thunder that goes on in The Sundowners...
...average Pakistani finds nothing amusing about India. Almost everything in Pakistan life is powerfully influenced by fear and hatred of India. When Nehru was the lion of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference last spring, Pakistanis got the idea that Britain favored India, retaliated by the obvious gesture of wooing Soviet Russia. They welcomed Russian trade and cultural delegations, maneuvered an invitation for Liaquat to visit Moscow. Since the U.S. invitation to Liaquat, there has been little talk of Russia or the Moscow trip, and Liaquat insists that Pakistanis are the world's most unbending antiCommunists...
...first husband, Louis VII, ("I thought to have married a king, but I find I have wed a monk"), Eleanor divorced him. Adding the Plantagenet tag to the Capet one she already possessed, she married Henry II of England, twelve years her junior. Her sons were Richard the Lion-Hearted and John Lackland...