Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reader who wants to know from a review only if the film is worth seeing, Carmen Jones presents no problem: see the picture. It is an experiment and it is largely unsuccessful. But even its failings are unique; you may touch quickly on every rough edge, you may commiserate with the memory of Bizet. You will probably not regret, however, having seen Carmen Jones...
...most of the trustees, David Henry was fully satisfactory. As executive head of Wayne from 1939 to 1952, he had seen enrollments rise from 11,800 to a peak of 18,300. He added $20 million worth of buildings to his plant, watched Wayne's one-block campus spread out to cover 20. But like most college presidents of the postwar years, he had also brushed with controversy. To at least one Illinois official-Vernon Nickell, the state's superintendent of public instruction and powerful ex officio member of the board that made Henry highly suspect...
...Compared with the yield of corporate bonds, stocks are in an even stronger position. They pay one-third more than bonds now, v. only two-thirds as much at the market's peak in 1929. Furthermore, there are still many companies whose stocks would be worth more dead than alive, i.e., their liquidation value per share, based on assets, is greater than the market price. Another yardstick: stocks now sell at an average of 13 times their earnings per share v. 21 times...
Twist of Fate (British Lion; United Artists). In most movies about the French Riviera, the scenery at least is worth watching. In this one, however, the landscape is cluttered up with so much unlovely plot that it can hardly be seen. The heroine (Ginger Rogers) is a kept woman who has everything that money (Stanley Baker) can buy-from a villa on the Riviera to a Jaguar parked outside it. But all she really wants is love (Jacques Ber-gerac). Bergerac (Actress Rogers' real-life fourth husband) is an artsy-craftsy type who makes expressionistic pottery for a living...
...collection of his bright sayings (The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde; John Day; $4) and a half-personal, half-literary memoir by his son, who took the name Vyvyan Holland (Son of Oscar Wilde; Dutton; $3.75). All of these anticipate the centenary of Wilde's birth (1856). Is he worth rereading? Much of his work is, and almost all is worth at least re-browsing...