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...side of a shiny black $6,000 Lincoln Continental. Damages: $2,300 to the building and the Continental, $1,000 to the Chevy, a cut lip for Mrs. Norman. The enraged company manager signed a complaint charging Mrs. Norman with malicious mischief. She posted $400 bail, airily said Metro could "go ahead, sue, I'm broke," and went back to work. First contributors to a Norman legal-defense fund: a group of anonymous "auto salesmen" who sent $15, hoped it would help Mrs. Norman "in your problems with a certain automobile salesman...
...many a disgruntled used-car buyer around the country, Mrs. Marcella Norman of Houston last week became the woman of the year. Mrs. Norman, a comely, 31-year-old divorced waitress who supports her four children, went to Houston's Metro Lincoln-Mercury Motor Co. a month ago to trade in her 1955 Ford for a newer car. She bought a 1957 blue Chevrolet sedan, thought she had signed a contract to pay $57.10 a month for 18 months. But when she checked the contract a few days later, she discovered that she would have...
...Jake Wade (MGM) is a horse opera of another color. Metro-color is what they call it, and it sure is loud. There is probably nothing more than gold in them thar hills, but to look at the screen, anybody might think there was neon. Still, the Sierra Nevada, in which much of the film was shot, is pretty hard to spoil. Its purple mountain majesties look down in mineral calm upon what is probably the most stupendous avalanche of clichés to roll across the screen since the last major western was released...
...WMGM is a sister subsidiary to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer under Loew...
...motion pictures began to speak, more than one star of the silent screen, e.g., Corinne Griffith, John Gilbert, turned out to have a boondocks twang or a reedy pitch, and was never heard from again. But to Ronald Colman, whose English accent and pleasingly low register were envied from Metro to Paramount, the coming of sound meant second wind for one of the cinema's longest and most unvaryingly successful careers...