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Divorced. Pare Lorentz, 37, famed producer of documentary films (The River, The Plow that Broke the Plains); by Sally Bates Lorentz, 30, onetime Broadway actress and mother of his two children; after eleven years of marriage; in Reno...
Cineproducer Pare Lorentz (The River, The Plow That Broke the Plains) sued RKO for $1,619,147 damages for slander and breach of contract. RKO stopped production last July on his Name, Age and Occupation (25-year odyssey of a "composite American...
...dropped by Harvard's conservative art department because of too much enthusiasm for modern art, particularly Disney's. But Disney is by all odds the most successful cinema educator to date. Says FORTUNE: "Previous educational movies, with such rare exceptions as the MARCH OF TIME and Pare Lorentz films, have been dull as dishwater and often embarrassingly coy in the bargain. Disney's are not only enlightening but exciting...
...blue-eyed, husky, apple-cheeked giant of a man, Robert Joseph Flaherty will be 57 this month but he has not finished his work. In 1939 another master of documentaries, Pare Lorentz, who made The River and The Plow That Broke the Plains for the U. S. Government, cabled Flaherty an invitation to film The Land for AAA. In the past 18 months Producer Flaherty has traveled some 20,000 miles about the U. S., making pictures on soil erosion. The Land will be completed this spring...
Lieut. Koche was quite safe in the prison camp. He had answered at roll call to the name of the man who had escaped, Naval Lieut. Günther Lorentz. Able to speak English almost without an accent, Lorentz was on his way to Montreal. After escaping, he disposed of his camp uniform (brown shirt and blue shorts) and put on a sack suit he had taken with him to Canada. He found Canada was a more delightful place than he had dreamed. A gasoline station gave him a map. A friendly fellow taught him a trick unknown in Europe...