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...RUBBER and Britain's Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd. have made peace with the Justice Department after six years of fighting a suit charging them with a cartel to divide up world markets in natural latex, rubber thread and elastic yarn. Though U.S. Rubber denies violating the antitrust laws, it has signed a consent decree promising to make its patents available to competitors at reasonable fees, and to manage separately companies jointly owned with Dunlop...
...Mutiny Court Martial, it turned out first-rate theater. In John Patrick's Teahouse of the August Moon (which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Critics Award), it offered the pleasantest sort of popular entertainment. In Edward Chodorov's Oh, Men! Oh, Women! it told an amusing yarn of a psychoanalyst. In Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, by mingling homosexuality with a radiant Deborah Kerr, it produced ideal matinee drama...
...have been without their favorite gentleman's gentleman for four years and five months. Now Jeeves is back, cool as dry ice and helpful as money in the bank. Old doters will not find The Return of Jeeves the finest vintage Wodehouse, but it is an adequate little yarn to while away the time that TV hasn't killed...
Glass Screens. A Fiberglas yarn for window screens has been put on sale by Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. Highly resistant to corrosion and weathering, the material has the further advantage over metal that it can be dyed in permanent colors. Price of standard mesh screening: about 16½ a sq. ft., approximately the same as bronze or aluminum screening...
Siege is a reliable old yarn that looks better than usual, chiefly because it has bigger stars. Van Johnson is on a secret mission for the Confederate States, running a Catling gun to Southern sympathizers in the West. Joanne Dru is the Reb-hating daughter of a Union officer. This means, as every moviegoer should know, that they were meant for each other. After Van helps the Yanks chase some Indians away from a Union fort (it's not that he loves Yankees, suh, but there are women and children in there), love triumphs...