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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington a worried little group of Britons and Canadians sat down to discuss with their U.S. opposite numbers what measures could be taken to save Britain from economic disaster (see INTERNATIONAL). To much of the U.S., sunny and prosperous in the late summer, the British crisis had an unreal look to it. Many a citizen could only take it on faith that behind the talk of the dollar gap, Britain's inadequate production and devaluation of the pound lay a dire threat to the stability of the Western World. In Washington, where men faced one another across the conference...
...step; it shrewdly decided to woo the public instead of damning the management. Union members appropriated $6,000 for newspaper advertisements and mail circulars to plug the store they work for. If business picks up, explained Paul P. Milling, president of the union local, "we will be able to look forward to a further improvement in wages...
...records. Cotton, wheat, oats, tobacco, apples, peaches and pears were above average. Nature had been kind; improved technology had increased yields by a whopping 50% an acre in the past 20 years. And men had worked hard for the bounty they would reap. As Mrs. Barbour pointed out: "People look at our apple trees and say, 'My, my, just look at all those dollars hanging on the trees.' They think we just sat on the porch and watched them grow. They don't know that a lot of good hard work has gone into that orchard...
Almost as soon as Guest Conductor Antal Dorati signaled for the first crashing ta-ta-ta-dah (from Beethoven's Symphony No. 5), then some muted lullaby music, the musicians began to look like small boys getting into a new game that was going to be fun. Most of the instruments got their chance to shine. Boomed the narrator, Nelson Olmsted: "First I invented the flute [deep blue solo]. Next, the oboe [etc.] . . . But that wasn't all I needed. I had to have -Sharps and flats and pizzicato, Molto Lento and staccato, Treble clef, ritard, repeat, Allegro...
Jolson Sings Again begins prosaically enough where the first movie left off, but it soon becomes a fascinating look at Hollywood backstage. Producer Sidney Buchman gives a close explanation of how he pulled off his neatest trick-the synchronizing of Jolson's singing voice with Actor Larry Parks's gestures and lips. He has also decked out the whole exhibition with a brilliant display of soundstage techniques and gadgets. The result is a dizzy scramble of fact and fiction. In the sequences showing the filming of The Jolson Story, Larry Parks plays both himself and the "real life...