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...people, as well as to the diplomats, Jimmy Byrnes said that the "development of sympathetic understanding" between the two great powers was "the paramount task of statesmanship." That, he pledged, was the course of a "patient but firm" U.S. policy...
Cloak and Dagger--Gary Cooper's OSS drama, opening Thursday at the Paramount and Fenway...
While many a corporation was losing its shirt, Hollywood's studios were able to fit themselves out in the finest mink-lined sport shirts. Last year had been a record year. This month Paramount's President Barney Balaban declared that 1946 would be even better. This meant that profits would be in the supercolossal class of around $130,000,000-double last year's. And dividends might run as high as $42,000,000, almost double last year...
...Radio City Music Hall, which used to show 20 pictures a year, last year showed only seven. This boosted the revenue per picture and per dollar investment enormously. It had also enabled studios to cut down on picture making, dole out the pictures already on its shelves. Item: Paramount's current smash moneymaker, Two Years before the Mast, cost only $1,000,000 to make two years ago, about half of what it would cost today...
...Bing's crooning. Married, singer and girl plunge into a peculiar marital conflict. Bing makes his living by buying & selling successful nightclubs. He plainly enjoys his work and does well enough at it to provide the little woman with striking Edith Head gowns and the smartest interiors that Paramount's art department can whip together. But Joan is terribly depressed by it all. Bing's admittedly eccentric profession fills her with deep insecurity and a sense of her husband's unstable character. Fortunately, while she broods about her soap opera dilemma, Bing has an opportunity...