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Downstairs in the building scattered sheets of yellow copy paper cover the desks and most of the News Board floor. Not a Crimed is in sight. Voices drift down the stairway...
Rome 11 O'Clock (Paul Graetz; Times Film Corp.) was inspired by a real happening in Rome in 1951. The picture tells of 200 job-hungry girls who show up in response to a want ad for one stenographer. As they wait in line, the office building stairway on which they are standing collapses under their combined weight. The movie focuses on several of the girls, e.g., the daughter of a rich family who is in love with a poor artist, a streetwalker trying to get honest employment, a stenographer who has been seduced by her former employer...
...appears a lot larger than the same set in one of the old-fashioned movies. The new technique, in effect, reveals that movie sets are large than life size in order to facilitate camera movement. This becomes obvious when you see a shot of a person walking up a stairway that is probably ten feet wide...
Facing the factory's owner, ex-Alderman Titus Haffa, was an investigation by a coroner's jury. One key finding yet to be explained: during alterations the interior stairway and the front fire escape of the Haber building were removed, and no provision made for substitute exits. Haffa, who had begun his career as a newsboy a block from the building, was shocked and contrite. He promised to turn the site into a playground as a memorial to the dead...
...house is a man's delight. The President can steal away from a party without walking up the dramatic carved stairway, for there is a secret staircase going up through a wall and leading to the second floor...