Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Days; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Mr. Welles) is Orson Welles with his foot on the loud pedal-which is roughly the equivalent of a lunatic asylum at the height of an electrical storm. Producer-Adapter-Actor-Magician Welles has blown up Jules Verne's famous yarn into a mammoth burlesque whose 34 scenes spill over the stage into the aisles and, when that won't do, resort to movie shots...
...Bride Wore Boots (Paramount) is a depressing little example of what can happen to a romantic farce when it is mauled by inept hands. Plainly designed as an airy, sophisticated yarn, the film follows the marital ups & downs of Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Cummings. After seven years of marriage, they are the parents of two healthy, handsome and singularly bad-mannered children...
...over a hundred years it has been customary for each textile mill to specialize in a single process only. One mill would spin, another weave, etc. But when Little established Textron's parent company (Special Yarns Corp.) on $10,000 capital in 1923, he had different ideas. He believed that in textile making all stages of manufacture, from yarn to consumer, should be under one management...
Today, Textron is integrated from raw yarn to finished product; it covers the field of house furnishings and clothing, employs its own designers, chooses its own retail outlets. And Little talks about a $100 million gross next year...
Born Yesterday. Amusing yarn about a big-shot racketeer who decides to have his dumb blonde educated and picks too good a teacher (TIME...