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Says Dr. Noel Thompson of Stanford University and the Palo Alto Medical Clinic in California: "The doctor who does something to the patient?sticks something down his throat or up the other end of his anatomy, cuts him open or takes his picture???receives a much larger amount of money." A fierce dispute rages over how much unnecessary surgery is performed on Americans each year. Though the precise figure is impossible to pin down, no one doubts that at least some doctors will operate on patients who could get by without surgery simply because the Government or a private insurer...
...jowled Teuton who is Paramount's chief contribution to the civilized cinema, Ernst Lubitsch. As a rule, Director Lubitsch likes to run songs through his pictures, to accent moods and italicize bon mots. This time the songs are inaudible but they are somehow implied in the flavor of the picture???like the olive which can be tasted in a good Martini cocktail even when it is not there...
...Woman Commands (RKO-Pathe). Apollonia Chalupez (Pola Negri) has a warm soft voice and an accent which, although she is a Polish gypsy, makes her sound almost exactly like Greta Garbo. This curious little picture???a combination of comedy, romance, mid-European melodramatics, court intrigue and fictionized history?does not suit her so well as the vampire parts she used to play in silent films but it has a few amusing sequences. Pola Negri, as a celebrated lady of the stage, is enamored of a captain in the Royal Guards (Basil Rathbone). She finds herself closeted with the King...
There, too, went, the Coolidges, for there are the studios of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer whose Louis Mayer is the most potent of resident California cinemen. And there was snapped a memorable picture???the most reserved and tightly conventional of U. S. presidents shaking hands with and faintly bowing to Marion Davies, beautiful, versatile and spectacular Hearst star...
...each other at a table and Anna sits or stands between them, stressing the triangle; when Old Man Christie vents his periodic curse on the Ole Davil Sea he usually goes and looks out at the sea, and shakes his fist at it. Anna Christie remains Greta Garbo's picture???a superb individual performance. Her voice is deep and flexible, and her Swedish accent fits naturally into the part. Best shot: Garbo telling why she cannot marry the Irishman...