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...first ten days of the fair, $5,700,000 worth of contracts were signed. Germans, who had hoped for much more, were bitter. Said a grey-haired Siemens-Schuckert representative with a saber scar on his cheek: "Our labor productivity is down about 50%, our wages are frozen, our raw material costs are up, and we are expected to sell at a world market price...
Desert Fury (Hal Wallls; Paramount) is easy to take with tongue in cheek, impossible to take with a straight face. The story: Mary Astor, who runs a Western gambling joint, doesn't want her daughter, Lizabeth Scott, to take up with Gangster John Hodiak, who is acquiring a sun tan in the neighborhood. Burt Lancaster, a state trooper, loves her, and that ought to be enough for any girl. But there is no holding Lizabeth from love's false course until, in a frenzy of fisticuffs and old-fashioned auto-chasing, she realizes that Hodiak...
...Madison, Wis., University Student Bill DeHaven reported to the infirmary with a gashed cheek and black eye, explained that while lying on the grass with a lady friend he was scampered over by a rabbit...
...Portland, Ore., matronly Mrs. Vern C. Edwards, knocked down by a young holdup man, questioned him sympathetically about his motives as she sat on the pavement, rubbing her bruises. Result: the thug courteously helped her to rise, hunted and found her lost earring, kissed her on the cheek and ran off, clutching 50? Mrs. Edwards had given...
...Brenda Forbes' side-splitting version of the libretto of "Dio Walkure." Kaye Ballard, appealing young newcomer, displayed a good talent for putting over a humorous song; she would go far if only she could muster enough volume for the gallery seats. Further time was killed in a tongue-in-cheek attempt to portray "The American Tragedy" via the R-H (Rodgers and Hammerstein) formula. Dreiser is already dead, but his estate might find grounds for some sort of lawsuit here...