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...winter long, while Communist armies moved relentlessly down from the north, U.S. businessmen had gathered at the long, polished bar of the Shanghai American Club for cocktails, a few rolls of liar's dice and endless conversation on the one question paramount in the mind of every Shanghailander: What would happen when the Communists took over? Many had thought that there might be a change for the better: the Communists would at least bring "order." By last week, most U.S. businessmen believed they had their answer. It was not so rosy as most of them had expected...
...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...
...Great Gatsby (Paramount] might have been a fine picture. F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel had almost everything a moviemaker could ask for: a strong love story, natural dialogue, an emotional climate as supercharged with violence as a summer storm, and a sensitive perception of period and place. Unfortunately, the movie version misses many of its opportunities...
Sorrowful Jones (Paramount), a remake of Damon Runyon's Little Miss Marker, turns out to be a major salvage operation. The original 1934 Hollywood version lifted Shirley Temple to stardom. The current version, though it has very little to do with Runyon, lifts Comedian Bob Hope out of an accumulated litter of silly scripts, props and costumes, and gives him a new grip on the U.S. public's funny bone...
Rich & Rubbery. Almost overnight, "Mr. B." had become one of the hottest singles in show business. The movies and nightclubs wanted him. The Paramount was happy it had signed him early for its Christmas show at only $7,500 a week...