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...hold him for a ransom in atomic formulas. The cops & robbers story is an old formula itself, but the tightly knit screenplay bristles with tingling action and intriguing mechanical devices used by the FBI operatives to track down the criminals: car-to-car telephones, kinescope, television cameras with zoom lenses...
...started producing the gadget in a small Chicago shop. Since then, 38-year-old John Tigrett has sold 15 million "Zoomerangs," and built a $2,000,000 annual toy business. This week fast-growing Toyman Tigrett put his 1952 models on sale. Among his new gadgets: a "Jet Zoom" pistol (98?) and bow & arrow Zoomerangs...
Director Bill Hobin uses cranes, dollies and ramps to move his five cameras up & down, back & forth, this way & that. A wide-angle lens can catch as many as ten dancers and eight singers in a single shot without having them trample each other or clutter the screen; the zoom-type lens moves from long shots to close-ups with a breathtaking rush and without loss of focus. With process shots (filmed backgrounds), Hobin can shoot scenes that look like Paris, Tokyo, the Taj Mahal or a Venetian canal...
...Student Prince (which once had nine road companies going simultaneously), The Desert Song, Blossom Time and The New Moon. His lush, middlebrow tunes ranged from rousing ballads (StoutHearted Men) to glowing sentiment (When I Grow Too Old to Dream) to this year's jukebox favorite Zing Zing, Zoom Zoom, but the standard favorites were the coyly romantic Wanting You, Lover Come Back to Me and One Kiss...
...Bertha and her mother home to Holland. The whole country was agog over their arrival. There were shouts of welcome, chants of "Bertha," government greeters, hard-pressing cameramen and reporters. Through it all, the jungle girl kept a sullen look. At the Hertoghs' festive home town, Bergen op Zoom, Bertha met her brothers & sisters. After a bit, two of her sisters persuaded her to come with them on a balcony and see the townspeople below. She did so. As Bergen op Zoom cheered, Bertha's sullenness gave way to a smile...