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...election year, even those paragons of neutrality, the newsreels, often have a hard time staying on the tightrope of impartiality. As successful as any this year was Hearst's Metrotone News. Unfortunately, while Metrotone was scrupulously avoiding every trace of partisanship, its famed producer's newssheets were doing nothing of the sort. By last summer, cinemaddicts who objected to Hearst newspaper policies had taken to booing Hearst Metrotone News whenever it appeared on the screen, picketing theaters that showed it. First move of theaters managers was to cut the titles with the Hearst name on them and insert...
Against scenery by Sergei Soudeikine which looks vaguely edible, Forbidden Melody unfolds a tangled tale of intrigue and counter-intrigue revolving about the return of King Carol of Rumania to his throne. No one impersonating buck-toothed Carol appears, however, and there is no trace of his red-headed familiar, Magda Lupescu. Sample gag: "Will you pardon me?" "Why certainly-what have you done...
...eyes do in normal sight. The two pictures are then inserted in a super-glorified stereoscope (built with Zeiss for $50,000). So accurate are the controls, so precise the instruments, that with the aid of another optical illusion it is possible on a flat map to trace from the apparent relief shown by the stereoscope the contour lines passing through points of the same elevation. Relatively limited is the demand for Fairchild's highly-specialized goods and services. Sales of the camera division last year were only $776,000, of the survey division $245,000. Staffed and equipped...
...Trace Jumper...
...found the best-organized, most enthusiastic crowd of his campaign. Twenty-five thousand Republicans bobbed to their feet, 25,000 voices roared, 25,000 U. S. flags were waved as he stepped out on the platform. Inspired, the Nominee responded with the best speaking of his career. Hardly a trace of the schoolboyish drone with which he began his campaign appeared as the Nominee masterfully set his audience laughing and booing at Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 demands for economy, went on to attack his opponent with forceful conviction: "As for his assurances that the budget would be balanced-well...