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Madame, based on Madame Sans-Gene, a vastly popular 19th century melodrama, is a spectacle that recommends to all producers of such pictures this modest list of don'ts...
...with the manners of a Southern aristocrat and the look of a riverboat gambler. He never finished college, hated literary talk ("I'm not a literary man, I'm a retired farmer"), often spoke like a country yokel (spattering his conversation with ain'ts and double negatives), and drank like a desperate man. Above all, he was-like his forefathers before him-a Mississippian...
...embarrassment of riches. With Frederic Donner, a tack-sharp onetime accountant, as chairman, G.M. now commands 55.7% of the U.S.-made auto market. That is a company record, the highest in the industry since Henry Ford's model Ts got 60% in 1921, and more than enough to prompt some nervous glances from G.M. officials toward the U.S. Justice Department, whose antitrust division constantly eyes the affairs of the world's biggest manufacturer. This year G.M. has conspicuously dropped its usual practice of stepping up Chevrolet advertising as its sales increase. There have been no recent dealer incentive...
Varieties of Life. Few regret the passing of the phony Hays ethics in which morality was supposedly satisfied as long as movies stuck to a long list of artificial don'ts (don't show a man and woman in bed, even if they are married, etc.). But Hollywood's new freedom, while making more room for honest art, has also made more room for calculated smut, drawing a barrage of protests from parents, pastors and assorted pressure groups. Defying accusations of censorship, many have suggested some sort of adults-only classification system on the theory that movies...
...more of the same, with a few of Ruark's African adventures thrown in. Like the first, it is written in sloppy, shoes-off language, and the fact that the author now buys his shoes for pounds sterling in London does not prevent him from typing "ain'ts" into his copy. "Know" is translated "reckon," "a lot" becomes "a power," g's are dropped conscientiously, and "God," sorrily enough, becomes "the boss weather-maker...