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...World- Alfred A. Knopf ($3.50); OWI's A War Atlas for Americans-Simon & Schuster ($2.50); Fairfield Osborn's The Pacific World-W. W. Norton & Co. ($3); David Greenhood's Down to Earth- Holiday House ($4); Erwin Raisz's Atlas of Global Geography-Harper & Bros. ($3.50); Nicholas Spykman's The Geography of the Peace -Harcourt, Brace & Co. ($2.75); Irving Fisher & 0. M. Miller's World Maps and Globes- Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
With spangles, and paint, and hot dogs, and clowns, and acrobats, and everything else connected with the big top except barefoot boys watering the elephants, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's "Greatest Show On Earth" is now in Boston--through Sunday--in all its pre-war glory...
Jumping frogs come from all over. Last week's Manhattan competitors came from frog farms in Vermont and New Jersey. The New Jersey contribution was by Warner Bros., whose interest in the affair was tainted with professionalism (see p. 56). The winners' jockeys, all boys, achieved their victories in various ways. Baby's jockey gave him a fight talk; Superman's said a last-minute prayer; the nameless leaper's rested on his luck. Flash, the world-champion jumper (15 ft. 10 in. in 1941), gave a demonstration, but the best that...
Uncertain Glory (Warner) indulges Warner Bros.' pet delusion that Errol Flynn may play the hero, but that he is even more appealing as a heel. This time Cinemactor Flynn is an Occupied-French murderer who is about to be guillotined when some opportune British bombs help him to escape. A dowdy Parisian plain-clothes man (Paul Lukas) recaptures him in a village where saboteurs have just blown up a bridge and the Gestapo is about to shoot 100 hostages in reprisal. Result: one of those ethical problems that bedevil Warner Bros.' pictures: Should the detective turn over...
Explained De Liagre: "All the movie companies were on my neck, so I went to M.G.M., 20th Century-Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros, and told them my idea. I don't think the price is outrageous. I'm gambling just as much as they are. For all I know, Turtle may be worth $6 million." As for Hollywood: "It has blown their hats off, but I'd say there's a good deal of response. Right now they're in a huddle...