Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...peace talk was good for stocks, it was bad news for war-inflated commodities. At week's end grains, wool, hides and cocoa went tumbling in the futures market. So did cotton, which a few days earlier had reached its highest price (44.14? a Ib.) since the Civil War. The Dow-Jones futures index plunged 5.71 points, a record break for a single day, and lowest since...
Copper Canyon (Paramount) is a milestone of mediocrity in Hollywood's current stampede to make Technicolored westerns pegged on the Civil War (see below). Neither good, bad nor indifferent to any standard device of horse opera, the picture makes a feeble stab at novelty by casting Hedy Lamarr and Ray Milland- both with the wrong accents-as a saloon queen and a Confederate ex-colonel...
...Civil War western was probably inevitable. The sustained box-office appeal of such Civil War epics as The Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind is part of Hollywood's folklore. Westerns, popular since early silent days, are still steady moneymakers. The latest trend was forecast last spring by MGM's The Outriders, in which Confederate Joel McCrea escaped from a Yankee prison camp, took to bushwhacking over broad stretches of western scenery. Then came 20th Century-Fox's Two Flags West (Confederate prisoners of war sign up to fight Indians), Warner's Rocky...
...Raiders (Paramount). Confederate veterans are .due to turn up in the postbellum Wild West as, among other things, bandits (RKO's Best of the Bad Men) and railroad builders (Columbia's Santa Fe). In Nat Holt's Warpath, the formula gets a bold switch: a Civil War veteran (Edmond O'Brien) goes west, all right, but he's a Yankee...
Seven professors and two teaching follows will meet in the Faculty Club this afternoon to discuss methods of revising the McCarran Bill. The group will also review the problem of protecting civil liberties in the present war crisis...