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Saigon (Paramount), where Alan Ladd turns up with Veronica Lake after his fatiguing operations in China and Calcutta, concerns a lot of Amerasian hugger-mugger over a stray $500,000. During the film, at least three well-paid players die for the purpose of bringing Alan and Veronica together. It seems a shocking waste of life until, doubtless referring to all the money Saigon is sure to make at the box office, Paramount has Veronica explain: "All this happened because it had to happen...
Lamont workmen used blowtorches. Mayor Curley used MIT's flame, throwers, Boston used every available street cleaner and a condescending reporter from the Globe. The railroads used well-paid volunteers from Harvard...
...writing music for Hollywood musicals for years, and auditioning her own songs. M-G-M Producer Arthur Freed would say: "Kay, you sang that great. You are terrific. Now, who will we get to sing it?" No candy-box beauty, lean, angular Kay Thompson was simply one of the well-paid but subsidiary hirelings that some Hollywoodians call "movie trash." Last week, movie trash had become nightclub treasure...
...grown in an unsympathetic world by a hardheaded conservatism. Under Samuel Gompers it shunned politics. It had only one real objective-wages, and more wages. It preferred to take what it could get without many risks. It hoarded its money against hard times and sought to organize only the well-paid, highly skilled workman...
Having approved this pious declaration in spite of all the hullabaloo, the committee went on to the next item of business: the question of Russia's professional "amateurs." Russia's well-paid athletes will be forgiven all the subsidies they have already received from their Government, providing they take no more between now and the 1948 Olympics...