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...wakened by her tutor and led to the family burial plot. "Do you believe," the tutor asked the shivering girl, "that the dead deserve more from us than prayers and tears?" Then he bent over the newly opened plot, detached Captain Dupin's skull from the rotting skeleton and held it out to Aurore, saying: "Kiss this relic that was your father." Aurore obeyed...
Overhead is cut to the bone by renting stage space, keeping only a skeleton staff of eleven people between pictures, paying actors by the hour. But they are paid well and they do the scenes right the first time. Gagged Pine: "We pay the highest salaries in Hollywood-for 20 minutes." Result: Overhead, which amounts to 40% of a film's total cost at M.G.M., is kept at 4% by Pine & Thomas...
...University, which had housed civilian war prisoners during the occupation, managed to reopen its law, education, commerce and liberal arts colleges, but most of its halls were filled with hospital beds. Luzon's small private colleges, which once had 22,000 students, reopened with only skeleton courses for their few thousand registrants...
...George R. Imhof's Leaving Fast-a harassed G.I. taking hasty leave of two dingy girls in a dingy back room (see cut). At the opposite pole of graphic imagery: Corporal Neil D. Schworm Jr.'s Corpse in the Moonlight, a gouache fantasy featuring a robed skeleton floating high over a toylike country church...
Strip Tease. In Seattle, Butcher Tony Travelli, tired of saying "No," pointedly installed a lamb's skeleton in his showcase...