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...People Against O'Hara brings Spencer Tracy to the screen at Loew's State and Orpheum. As an aging but convincing criminal lawyer, Tracy dies trying to save his lying client...
...left for the kind of expansion he had in mind. So Sarnoff began his famous series of expansions without cash; he traded RCA products and stock for the companies he wanted. RCA had developed the Photophone, a device for talking movies, and traded rights to it to Radio-Albee-Orpheum and F.P.O. Productions, Inc. for 65% of their stock. The name was changed to the Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO). To get into the manufacturing business on its own, instead of remaining only a wholesaler of sets, RCA swung an even bigger deal: RCA took over Victor Talking Machine...
There is a live lion in the lobby of the Orpheum theatre these days, and if you are under 14, you might easily win a cocker spaniel puppy by naming the beast. He is appearing in connection with M-G-M's African movie "King Solomon's Mines" and presumably remains in the lobby because it would be sheer folly to buck the horde of wild animals who are currently haunting the screen...
...Easy Living" at the Keith Memorial, the story of pro football in which Vic Mature kicks around Liz Scott; "Jolson Sings Again" at the Low's Orpheum, Larry Parks as He; "Come to the Stable" at Loew's Publix, Celeste Holm and Loretta Young as Sisters; "Pinky" at the Astor, Jeanno Crain portrays a light-skinned colored nurse; "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" at the RKO Boston, Donald O'Connor proves he's not my boy; "Savage Splendor" at the Pilgrim, exotic Africa in garish technicolor. Walt Disney's "Ichabed and Mr. Toad" is back up on Tremant Street...
...past year, prodded by the Department of Justice, Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. and Paramount Pictures, Inc. have agreed to split their production-distribution operations and theater-owning functions into independent halves (TIME, May 17, 1948 et seq.). But the three other members of filmdom's "Big Five"-Loew's Inc., 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. and Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.-decided to continue fighting Justice's antimonopoly suit. Although they knew they would probably have to yield in the end, the longer they could stave off the splitup the more money they might make from continuing...