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...wildest dreams. When they heckled him, he said "I don't blame you. In 1933, if you had told me that I would be paying bonuses of 100% of the salaries and still reducing the costs, I wouldn't have believed you either." To committee counsel Edmund Toland's contention that these bonuses (plus a $1,000,000 trust fund established to retire extra wartime workers) had milked the Government out of over $4,000,000 in taxes from 1939-41, he retorted with a fancy statistic. Had his incentive pay not developed new manufacturing short cuts...
...Disallowing exorbitant salaries, bonuses and similar expenses," said dry, wry Committee Counsel Edmund Toland, "these profits would be about 100%." He noted that the firm had invested $900,000 in defense bonds, observed: "They are buying Government bonds with Government money...
This picture is one of Hollywood's better jobs, but its plot is not the reason. The real heroes of the production are Cameraman Gregg Toland, who recreates his subtle photographic touches of "Citizen Kane," and Patricia Collinge, who, as the garrulous and persecuted Birdie, gives to Miss Hellman's only real character-study, the same spirited portrayal that made it live on the stage. Always the artist, Mr. Toland makes brilliant use of the shadow and heightens the power of the climactic staircase scenes by shooting from unique angles...
...indictment of small-time capitalism along with its astringent drama does not come off so well. The characters are so clearly black or white that they are too vivid for real life. But this does not keep a Southern lady's melodrama, aided and abetted by Gregg Toland's talented camera craft, from being a memorable portrait of greed. Regina and her wretched relatives possess the fascination of rattlesnakes courting in a bathtub...
...yard backstroke swim: Won by H. L. Toland; second, S. D. McClellan; third, W. Smith. Time...