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Different people have different hates about the movies. Some say the great old actors are vanishing from the scene, and in their stead are appearing a group of highly publicized, incompetent "starlets"; the John Barrymores are giving way to the Ann Sheridans. Home blame the script writers, some the directors. But though each of these arguments may be perfectly valid in regard to specific faults of the movies, they do not arrive at the basic cause for Hollywood's declining standards. This fundamental cause is the belief shared by practically everyone in Holywood, that the movie-going public...
...Wyoming's Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, requiring registration of international cartel agreements. Said President Gallagher: Standard Oil agrees "in principle" with the bill. Standard Oil also believes in "free competition." But Mr. Gallagher reminded the Senators that free competition no longer exists in many nations. In its stead is "control of production, markets and price...
Paradoxically enough, Miss Jones' inexperience on the stage has stood her in good stead. The unsophistication essential to an accurate portrayal of the inspired peasant girl comes easily to young Jennifer, who has none of the worldliness that might have vitiated th erole had a more experienced star undertaken...
First Premier Emmanuel Tsouderos resigned and asked King George II, busy in London, to name fellow Cabinet Member Sophocles Venizelos Premier in his stead...
...group is alleged to have elimi nated competition by splitting up world markets. Similar deals were supposedly made with Germany's I. G. Farben-industrie and Dynamit Aktiengesellschaft (D.A.G.), ending when World War II began. The complaint broke new ground only in naming I.C.I, as a defendant, in stead of a coconspirator, and by naming Lords McGowan and Melchett...