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Also in Paris are an estimated 2,000 people without any homes whatsoever, whole families who, any winter's night, may be seen camped on the Metro gratings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Sheltering Sky | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

Like the New York subway system-which it rivals in overcrowding, labyrinthian complexity and financial difficulties -the Paris Metro has a smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Essence of Metro | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...Last Time I Saw Paris is so phoney it hurts. In its return to the Continent from campaigns on the Italian peninsula Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has settled on a rework of the stock script about war-weary American youth in Europe. Ostensibly patterned after a Scott Fitzgerald novel, it somehow misplaces World War I and ends up occurring in 1945. Otherwise, it is Hollywood's latest testimonial to its own mixed up conception of gay, reckless Paris...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: The Last Time I Saw Paris | 11/26/1954 | See Source »

...down, seized my sketchbook, and raced off to the Hasty Pudding, where they had the red carpet rolled all the way up to the Hayes-Bickford trash cans. Presently a thirty-foot Harvard limousine with flying bridge and machine guns drew unobtrusively to the curb, and a crowd of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer publicity agents piled out and began shaking hands...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Some Enchanted Tea Time | 11/17/1954 | See Source »

Since her first Metro picture (Mogam-bo), Grace has been busier than a flock of starlets at a cocktail party. Warner Bros, borrowed her for Dial M, and Paramount for three more films, which have not yet been released. All are surefire hits, too: Country Girl (with William Holden and Bing Crosby), Rear Window (with James Stewart), Bridges at Toko-Ri (with Holden). She is now working on Green Fire (with Stewart Granger) for MGM; this summer she returns to Paramount for Catch a Thief (with Cary Grant), follows that with The Cobweb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

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