Word: mann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aufbau to its subscribers in 49 states and 83 foreign countries, George works 14 hours a day seven days a week in a shabby office cluttered with pictures of such old friends as Marlene Dietrich (he wrote her first biography), Albert Schweitzer, and Thomas Mann. Most of Aufbau's feature articles come from outside contributors and George does the drama and movie reviews himself. With 60% of its space devoted to ads. Aufbau turns a handsome profit, last year gave $47,700 to needy refugees...
...Mouse gets out of this narrative trap, but in the process its tail end is somewhat mangled. Up to that point, though, the Roger MacDougall-Stanley Mann script is a fairly witty example of a rare film form: political burlesque. It keeps the show bouncing along despite a director (Jack Arnold) and a star (Peter Sellers, a sort of second-company Alec Guinness playing several roles) who have not mastered the light-fantastic style that suits and supports this sort of flimsy British whimsy...
...Mann Act, Snyder declared, "is incompatible with a true system of free enterprise, we must put the Mann back into the act," he concluded...
...Harvard and Princeton debate teams fought to a bitter tie yesterday on the controversial issue of repeal of the Mann Act. The Mann Act forbids interstate commerce in white slaves...
...Mann's judgement about technical effects is often questionable. For example, in a scene outside Dr. Abelman's house in the Brooklyn slums, three teen-age Negroes throw beer cans at Woody Thrasher's white sedan as Thrasher drives away. This moment could have been quite eloquent, but some loud, over-dramatic background music destroyed the entire effect...