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...ready to face the music," cried James Caesar Petrillo, "and I don't mean amateur or foreign music...
...Succeeds Caesar? Behind him Joe Patterson, moody millionaire and reformed Socialist, left an anxious question for his hirelings and rival press lords to ponder. What would happen to the gaudy Daily News, now that its heart had stopped beating? The answer might rest with two other grandchildren of old Joseph Medill, who founded a fabulous dynasty when he bought into the Chicago Tribune six years before the Civil...
Most popular films: The Way to the Stars (U.S. title: Johnny in the Clouds); The Man in Grey. Henry V was fifth, In Which We Serve eighth, Colonel Blimp 15th; Caesar and Cleopatra was not mentioned. Most of the nine leaders were made under the J. Arthur Rank banner...
...heard too much about literature, or movies as a white-collar art, and the sinister forces of Decency were still relatively quiescent, many vigorous, perceptive and entertaining movies were turned out. The best dealt with violence and skill-usually criminal-in big cities. Good examples: Public Enemy, Little Caesar, The Crowd Roars...
...bumptious James Caesar Petrillo, exigent czar of U.S. musicians, it was a week of unparalleled tributes. From Toledo came flattering news: somebody was going around representing himself as Petrillo. In Hollywood, movie magnates cheerfully upped his studio musicians' pay by 33% (previous annual wage: $5,200), agreed to a 44% increase in the number of regularly employed musicians. From Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Nicholas Schenck came the most gracious accolade of all: "We had a very lovely and friendly three weeks of negotiation...