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...humid summer has helped the movie business as well; Marcus Loew, owner of the theater chain, used to say, "It should look like rain, but not rain." Even television is credited with doing its bit by driving people out of the house with its stale summer reruns. Perhaps most important of all, last year's string of mega-hits-Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Close Encounters of the Third Kind-has helped put the public back into the movie habit. Says 20th Century-Fox Senior Vice President Ashley Boone: "People are enjoying themselves. I don't know whether...
...tiny (5 ft. 5 in.), restless dynamo who arrived in the U.S. from Hungary at age 16 in 1889 with $40 to his name, Zukor had a simple formula for success: "Look ahead a little and gamble a lot." In the early 1900s, he and another immigrant furrier, Marcus Loew, gambled on the fledgling moving picture business-first with a string of penny arcades featuring flickering, hand-cranked "peep-shows," later with storefront nickelodeons. Convinced that the movies' future lay in full-length dramas, Zukor in 1912 split with Loew, who later became one of the founders of Metro...
...LOEW's ABBEY I. Chloe in the Afternoon...
...LOEW'S ABBEY II. Up the Sandbox...
...role that it is amazing how quickly Howard's image shuffles Harrison out of our heads. Wendy Hiller is a vital and beautiful Eliza Dolittle, and Wilfrid Lawson is joyously seedy as her father. Arthur Honegger composed the musical score, so even if you miss Lerner and Loew, there are compensations...