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...lands drained by the Shannon, the Niger, the Nile, the Euphrates, the Ganges, the Indus and the Irrawaddy, Marxism is not the paramount issue. These lands are regarded by both Marxists and anti-Marxists as somewhat backward...
...wasn't meant to be a theater in the first place. It was intended for concerts and forums, and, through the years, the University has obviously kept this consideration in mind. Rulings prevent nails from being driven into the woodwork, because they might disfigure the stage for its paramount functions as a concert or lecture platform. Scenery has had to be hauled on and off stage for each performance or rehearsal; there are no dressing rooms or places where stage crews can build scenery...
...Walk Alone (Paramount) brings Burt Lancaster, a distinctly old-fashioned gangster, back from stir, to find that his onetime partners have become nightclub owners and won't cut him in. When he tries to muscle in, he discovers, in a sourly amusing scene in which modern business methods are explained to him, that mere brute force is helpless against the intricacies of interlocking corporate structure. Aside from this scene, the movie has little interest except for some good work by Kirk Douglas and Wendell Corey as Burt's enemies, some spasms of fair melodrama and plain brutality. Lizabeth...
...Paramount was empire-building as fast as time and the FCC would permit. Last week KTLA, the big Paramount-owned station in Los Angeles, had one of the fullest logbooks of any television studio in the U.S. (35 hours a week). Another Paramount production is Chicago's WBKB, and the company has a big (29%) interest in DuMont, one of television's Big Three networks...
Road to Rio (Paramount). The Crosby-Hope-Lamour "Road" pictures, in the opinion of plenty of enthusiastic cinemaddicts, can lead anywhere and go on forever. Their comedy is more verbal than visual, but any kind of slapstick-one of cinema's lost arts-is rare these days. Because they fill some of the void, these loose-jointed spoof pictures at least guarantee a lot of good laughs...