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There still persists the notion that Hollywood's greatest art forms are the private-eye picture, the screwball comedy and the musical. Judging from the three latest melodic revivals, Funny Girl, Finian's Rainbow and Star, it may be time for the return of Topper and 5am Spade...
Carl A. Kuhrmeyer, vice president of 3M's duplicating productions division, expects color equipment to eventually capture at least 10% of a fast-growing copying-machine market that already amounts to $1 billion a year. Despite its substantial head start toward that rainbow of riches, 3M has every reason to respect the competition. RCA and Polaroid, which are both newcomers to the duplicating-machine business, are still working on color-copying processes of their own. Then, of course, there is always Xerox, whose color copier, when it comes out, will almost inevitably...
...Finian's Rainbow -- A heavyhanded, poorly acted film version of the musical, with nothing but the splendid score and the magnificent Fred Astaire to recommend it. The director, Francis Fred Coppola, has a bad habit of chopping people's hands and feet off; stars Petula Clark and Tommy Steele ought to act their age. At the SAXON, Tremont & Stuart...
...simplistic notion of the '40s that Negroes are just like whites beneath the skin is more than an embarrassment now. And Rainbow's light-headed whimsy is now done better by television, with its dreamed-of genii or married witches. Even so, the movie might have survived were it not for the ham-handed direction of Francis Ford Coppola, 29, whose only previous Hollywood feature was the moderately comic You're a Big Boy Now. Astaire and Clark are saddled with threadbare brogues, and both talk as if they were dictating letters to a tape recorder. Tommy...
Though a few of the Burton Lane songs-notably Old Devil Moon and Look to the Rainbow-are imperishable, most of the score is as withered as the scenario. The few attempts at updating by E. Y. Harburg, who wrote the lyrics, are ludicrous. In 1947 one couplet...