Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...premiere Aug. i. Six days earner, Producer Lou Bunin's French-made puppet & live-action Alice in Wonderland (released through Souvaine Selective Pictures) is slated for its U.S. opening in two of Exhibitor Harry Brandt's Manhattan movie houses. Last week, after months of ominous rumbling, Disney and Souvaine entered into battle. Claimed Disney: Bunin's "inferior" Alice would deceive the public into going to see the wrong picture, thus spoiling his nice new Alice's box-office take. In good Tweedledee fashion, Souvaine retorted: Contrariwise...
...Russians as friends." The fears of Europe were much the same as the world's today: "What if. having occupied Finland, Bessarabia and Poland, the northern colossus should now strike southwards across the central Asian deserts to the Indian Ocean?" And when British Foreign Secretary Castlereagh opposed a puppet Poland under Russian control, "he was curtly informed that Russia, already in occupation of Poland, possessed an army of 600,000 men." Most familiar of all: "[Castlereagh] knew that the Czar would bluff and bluster from gain to gain so long as he thought that the West was pacific...
...Communists, was the authentic representative of China's millions; Rusk also hinted that the U.S. stood ready to help any revolt against China's "foreign masters." State's Republican Consultant (with rank of ambassador) John Foster Dulles had added: "The Mao Tse-tung regime is a puppet regime . . . It is imperative that we move quickly." Did these speeches, as they clearly seemed to indicate, represent a switch by the U.S. to a strong China policy...
...underground government were invited to be Marshal Zhukov's guests, ostensibly to discuss future Polish-Russian relations and the security of the Red army then fighting in Poland. Actually, the Russians had laid plans to smear the Polish underground, stifle its "uncooperative" patriots, and set up their own puppet regime. Promptly on arrival, the 16 delegates were clapped into Lubianka to be "interrogated." The charge: that they had conspired with the Germans against the Red army and the Soviet Union. Neither drugs nor storybook tortures were used, yet 14 out of the 15 who stood trial...
Kaye's wonderfully mobile face and his incredible sense of timing are still his main stock in trade. His best performances in "On the Riviera" are a clever dance-pantomime song about "Popo the Puppet," a series of doubles entendres with Miss Tierney, and the airport reception for Capitaine Henri Duran...