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Basement Beginning. Her story of her career reads like the schmalz she sells. A Berlin postman's daughter. Use was 17 when she went to work as a secretary for UFA, prewar Germany's movie giant. A few years later, when she switched to the Monopol studios, she was already an unbeatable combination of the seemingly in genuous female and the obviously ingenious financier. In 1934, Use was ready to take over, and for years, she practiced the tough trade of running a movie studio; then the Red army moved on Berlin. Use escaped to Bavaria with only...
...mass of solar information across to a mass audience, Bell's show used live action, patches of stock film (shot in Japan, Australia, France, India), and animated gimmickery. As a bonus, it spared viewers interruptions for commercials. Often Sun was dulled by some too-precious UFA (Gerald McBoing Boing) cartoons, and the interplay between big, brash Mr. Sun and Father Time (spoken by the late Lionel Barrymore), Dr. Research (U.S.C.'s Shakespeare Scholar Dr. Frank Baxter) and a usually superfluous Fiction Writer (Actor Eddie Albert) was too often embarrassingly labored. But the photography, much of it shot through...
...charm of the cartoons, which are animated by the UFA ("Mr. Magoo") studios, lies in the bungling earnestness with which the bottle-bald brothers lampoon the standard TV sales talk, e.g., with slogans such as "Throat-wise, it's delicious.'' Plotwise, the fictional Piel boys, whose lines are spoken by radio's Bob (Elliott) and Ray (Goulding), are a study in opposites. Pint-sized Bert is a gabby, obnoxious supersalesman who shouts his commercials, scolds the audience and continually squelches Stringbean Harry. After a few seconds of bumptious Bert, viewers feel so sorry for well-meaning...
...deeper into the animation field (it already has a TV contract with UFA, makers of the Mr. Magoo shorts) by the rumored $5,000,000 purchase of all the assets of Paul Terry's Terrytoons, Inc. Paramount Pictures also edged into TV with an offering of 1,600 short subjects (asking price: $3,500,000), and Producer David O. Selznick sold eleven of his feature-length films (including The Paradine Case, Notorious, The Farmer's Daughter) to National Telefilm Associates for $1,000,000. At week's end Columbia Pictures jumped on the TV bandwagon by leasing...
...group of 45 combat infantrymen from the 253rd Infantry, 63rd Division, who comprise the G.I. version of the old favorite, have done 50 performances to date before some 56,000 troops. The show has appeared in Heidelberg at the world-famed Stadt Theater, in Mannheim at the onetime luxurious UFA Palast, at the Walhalla Theater in Wiesbaden and the Liberty and Montgomery Theaters in Kassel...