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Glossy and tinseled, the two features now playing at Loew's State and Orpheum are both based on a primer book conception of American life, a rosey landscape which precludes the appearance of any squalor or the portrayal of any emotional conflict. Each movie was denuded of dramatic meat for a different reason. One, a propaganda-type film scheduled for release around Brotherhood Week, was sterilized to make the American flag shine more brightly. The main feature, The Belle of New York, is a musical and therefore should not need any dramatic merit...
Knock on Any Door. A Humphrey Bogart classic at Loew's Center...
Lone Star Lots of stars in this better-than-average Western. Gable and Gardner provide the love, Broderick Crawford the leers, Gabby Hayes and Lionel Barrymore the laughs. At the Loew's State and Orpheum...
Despite this trite ending, Gable and Miss Gardner combine to make Lone Star entertaining even for those suffering from a surfeit of Westerns. Also at Loew's Louis Haywood staggers through a conventional horror-thriller, The Son of Dr. Jekyll...
...consent decree, like those signed by RKO, Paramount, 20th Century-Fox and Warner Brothers (TIME, May 17, 1948, et seq.), requires Loew's to sell 24 theaters outright, and possibly 50 others in its 131-theater chain, in order to encourage competition. Under the five consent decrees signed by the movie companies, more than 1,200 theaters will eventually be sold to independent exhibitors. Another 1,300 are slated to be run by the new theater companies that were organized after divorcement...