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Olivia de Havilland, Tokyo-born brunette (see cut), was rescued from potential "life service" to Warner Bros. by a Superior Court in Los Angeles. In a ruling which the Motion Picture Daily called "precedent-establishing," the judge declared that to add the accumulated lost time of her seven suspensions to the seven calendar years of her contract "would amount to virtual peonage." Warner Bros. declared that it had just begun to fight...
With the Marines at Tarawa (U.S. M.C.; edited by Warner Bros.; distributed by Universal) is war in the least expurgated form most U.S. cinemaddicts are likely to see. It has long been a question how much battle experience should be communicated to civilians. With the Marines at Tarawa should settle the question once for all. Some things have been left out (in battle the camera cannot be everywhere). And there is no shot of any American being wounded or killed. Nevertheless, the picture's 19 minutes of unflagging pity, terror and intense action make a film whose power...
...Grimace for History. With the help of the Marine Corps, Warner Bros, has given this film fine reticence of sound effect and commentary. The very rawness of the color helps to give a rawer reality to some of the most real things ever fixed by a camera. But after all its fierceness With the Marines at Tarawa ends quietly, with one of the most powerful shots it records. The marines are trooping back from battle. They march toward the camera. One young fellow on the sidelines is smiling, almost with jubilation. There are no other smiles. One gaunt...
Promptly he packed the fifth floor of Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, department store with two and a half acres of medieval armor, Hispano-Moresque pottery, Dutch masters, and other art objects too numerous to mention. By last month the total sales of these and other Hammer enterprises were near $15 million...
...long-winded soap opera came to a happy ending last week. Back in 1941, huge Lever Bros. (Swan, Spry, etc.) sued equally huge Procter & Gamble (Ivory. Crisco, etc.) in Baltimore, contending that P. & G.'s new Ivory soap infringed on Lever's brand-new patented Swan soap. Promptly, P. & G. fired back with a suit of its own, charging that Swan soap infringed on old Ivory soap (TIME, June 22, 1942 ). After a three-year legal struggle, Lever Bros. won its suit in appellate court last December, got ready to battle P. & G. on up into...