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Like Carlo Collodi's children's classic, the picture is a morality tale. Kindly old Wood Carver Geppetto carves a puppet so lifelike that he is given life. But before the live puppet can become a boy he must become truthful, courageous, unselfish. His one constant companion in the adventures that test the little puppet is Jiminy Cricket, his conscience, "that still, small voice that nobody listens to." This worldly but goodhearted little insect, topped by a grey topper and swinging an umbrella ("a genuine Chamberlain" which he sometimes uses for a parachute), comes to work late...
...part owner) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Producer David Selznick (Selznick International), who split a reputed 70% of the box-office gross. And since the book on which it was based was the fastest selling U. S. novel, it would also copper-rivet GWTW as the all-time hard-cash classic...
Though the Quadrangular meet at the Boston Garden next Saturday will not include the heralded classic mile that added thrills to the other meets in the wooden saucer this winter, it is compensated for the loss of this one event thrill by a close, brilliant team competition...
...lover of classic art who calls Greece his second home, Maillol almost got into trouble on the Acropolis for trying to embrace a statue whose beauty intoxicated him. Like the Greeks, he is more interested in modeling the body than the face. His strapping, good-natured wife, who was formerly one of his tapestry weavers, posed for many of his statues. Now he uses younger, slenderer models...
...throne. But Broker Pierce's merger with an underwriter has little to do with the New Deal, more to do with his notorious optimism. Favorite Pierce dictum: "I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and half-right." But his latest move follows the classic pattern of the late Financier E. H. Harriman. who always bought at the bottom. Wall Street, long in the dumps (a Stock Exchange seat last week sold at $48,000-lowest since 1918), has to Optimist Pierce and Realist Merrill become a buy again...