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...epitome of his constantly dazzling methods. Technically no more than an extended dialogue, pyrotechnically it constitutes a splendid show. There are drawbacks: like almost everything of Shaw's, the Hell Scene could be shorter. But the characters score their points like polished duelists, flash their rhetoric like master showmen, make ideas hiss and coil and spring like creatures of melodrama. There are drawbacks to the performers, too: Charles Boyer's decided French accent and Charles Laughton's occasional tendency to ham. But in general, the quartet offers fine ensemble playing, with Boyer a magnetic Juan, Laughton...
Hollywood showmen, always sniffing the shifting winds of popular favor, had a chance last week to savor a steady breeze. It came from a 33-city survey by Independent Producer William Pine, specialist, with his partner William Thomas, in trying to give the public what it wants. Pine & Thomas, proud to be known as "the Dollar Bills," have made money on 63 of their 64 pictures. On the theory that exhibitors are the best guides to public taste, they make an annual junket to sound the theater men out. After listening to them this season, Pine reported...
...presumably hopes will come to see his movie-the packs of ordinary citizens who crowd by car, bus and train to the arid site of Minosa's entombment and settle down cheerfully in tents and trailers for a morbid spectators' holiday. With them come radio and TV showmen and a neon-lighted traveling carnival, with Ferris wheel, pitchmen, hamburger stands and a hillbilly band bawling a specially concocted ballad, We're Coming...
...love you," she obviously means it. But she is still surprised at her big success. Twice before, when she interrupted her expatriate career to try out her talents in U.S. musicals, the critics were unkind. After she made a big hit in Havana this winter, she let U.S. showmen persuade her to try again...
Most eye-catching export: life-size mechanical elephants, made by a Maxted, Essex company. They wave their trunks, flap their ears, have a carrying capacity of ten adults or 16 children and get 15 miles on the gallon. Five have been ordered by U.S. showmen. Price: $3,200 apiece...