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Movies are knows as the private possession of Hollywood, but the College got into the act in fine style. Ivy Films, post-war undergraduate organization, finished its first production and sold out the University Theatre for a special world promiere. Metro-Goldwya-Mayor kept a star and production crew in the Yard four days taking background shots for a murder mystery "semi-documentary" featuring the Medical School's Department of Legal Medicine...
...Idol Clark Gable has been dating recently received the news of his elopement with Lady Stanley in a variety of ways-from bitterness to stiff upper lip. Said Virginia Grey, who is sometimes called Hollywood's "most gorgeous blonde": "Oh my God! Is it true?" Pretty Elaine White, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer secretary: "Well, I sure wasted a Christmas card, I guess." Producer Joan Harrison: "We were just good friends." Long before the fact, Paulette Goddard was quoted as saying: "That's that. So long, sugar." In San Francisco, as the Gables started on a Hawaiian honeymoon, several hundred...
...Moscow's Metro, each station has an architectural motif. The murals in the new station at the Central Park of Culture and Rest are devoted to "Leisure for the Working Classes." On a wall are the words of the 119th article of the Stalin Constitution: "Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to rest and leisure." Wall relief sculpture depicts musicians, sportsmen and dancers. At another station, the motif is "Victory of the Soviet People over Fascism"; the mosaics show pilots, soldiers & sailors...
There are no turnstiles on the Metro. Tickets are sold at booths, but most riders buy tickets in advance by the book. The passengers descend to the platforms by long ramps or escalators. Everything is brightly lighted, frequently by indirect ceiling lighting. An attendant tears off a part of the ticket, as in a U.S. movie house. Most of the subway attendants and some of the drivers are women...
...Metro is closed from 1 until 6 in the morning. Rush hours occur just about the same time as in a U.S. city. The crowds are heavy too, but they do not push their way in & out of cars with the blunt fury of stampeding cattle (as is customary in New York City). Said one U.S. correspondent formerly stationed in the Soviet capital: "The Russian people just move along ploddingly; they are not nearly so ferocious...