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...fact, the musical sound track of "Song of Love" is almost an undiluted pleasure. The Schubert fiasco was built about one piece, Gershwin's music was abominably played, and Chopin's was doled out in little snippets mostly transcribed for orchestra, but in "Song of Love" Metro has avoided all of these faults. The music is played well, if without much verve, by Artur Rubinstein, and there is lots of it. The film opens with a huge chunk of Loszt's E flat concerto, and later developments weave in all of Brahms' splendid G minor rhapsody, parts of his first...
...pretty bad pictures these days without half trying. But almost any one of them, no matter how atrocious, contains some little twist of plot, a line or two, or some bit character perhaps, that goes against the general grain of inanity. All this is usually true, but Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer this week has made it all too clear that the exception proves the rule. For, no matter how hard you may try, you can't possibly find anything about "Desire Mc" that merits praise of any sort...
...there is only death," sighed a dainty dancer at a huge protest rally in Shanghai's New Fairy Forest ballroom last week. A delegation of ten, led by graceful, limpid-eyed Meng Yen, queen of the Metro-Goldwyn (no kin to Hollywood) dance hall, was promptly dispatched to Nanking. From headquarters at the Security and Happiness Hotel, Yen and her henchwomen bore down on the National Economic Council, the Ministries of the Interior and Social affairs, the Legislative Yuan. Functionaries sent word that they were out, so the girls left notes...
...studios are concentrating on "cheap" million-dollar pictures. Costs are being cut, shooting schedules reduced. Metro's If Winter Comes (Deborah Kerr and Walter Pidgeon), which would normally have taken 70 days to shoot, has been finished after only 57. Fox canceled the expensive costume piece, The Black Rose, and plans to bear down on the Louis de Rochemont type of "realism," shot on location. Universal-International dropped Song of Norway, which would have been a big draw on the foreign markets. Expensive musicals generally are giving way to cheap, lucrative little comedies about domestic love...
...leading department stores last week leaped at the chance to make a big business out of a little woman. The little woman is Irene Gibbons, whose credit line ("Costume supervision by Irene") has made her name and work familiar to millions of cinemaddicts as executive designer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios...