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...Ambassador Hotel, Multi-Magnate J. Myer Schine (movie houses, hotels, real estate) thought he had a plush as well as a profitable property. It was profitable, all right: the net matched his investment of $1,600,000 in less than two years. But after Schine invited Designer Norman Bel Geddes to look the place over last summer, he changed his mind about the plushness...
High Pressure. These grandiose projects mean much to shmoo-shaped, grandiose Norman Bel Geddes. After two bad years, he is making a comeback...
...cattle behave convincingly. When they stampede, they look less like a spectacle than just a big nuisance. The bad men (Robert Preston, et al.) are also believable. Before Cowpoke Robert Mitchum gets mixed up in plot, he has a friendly shooting match with the rancher's daughter (Barbara Bel Geddes). She snipes at him as he tries to ford a stream. He retaliates by shooting the heel off her boot. At some point in this exchange of lead, love blossoms...
...after seven anxious years, the Bel was barely swinging. Import restrictions had shrunk its British market. To square garrulous Editor Peadar O'Donnell, one time schoolmaster in County Donegal there seemed but one way out. He would go to the U.S. and raise some money...
...Remember Mama. Domestic comedy and pathos, richly presented by George Stevens; with Irene Dunne, Oscar Homolka, Barbara Bel Geddes (TIME, April...