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...government economists were not the only prophets of boom. "Outlook," a Wall Street investment weekly, declares jubilantly: "Profits in prospect for industrial corporations generally over the next few years are likely to make 1929 and 1937 look small by comparison." While the big days of 1929 are being made to look small by today's high-profit businessmen, while rising prices increase profit margins and the swollen net profits of wartime are surpassed in the rush to "get yours," who will be thinking of that day several years from now when the seemingly inexhaustible consumer demand created by wartime shortages...
...first comparison that thinking American audiences will probably make is between this British film and some of the stupendous offerings of the West Coast celluloidaterias. Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, described Howard as being "just middle-aged once," are small, quiet, English bourgeoisie who are thrown, by chance, into a tragedy of love from which they will never emerge. Miss Johnson, as a housewife, is forty and looks it. She is not pretty. Her clothes are plain and her hair shows the results of innumerable "permanents" at a local beauty-parlor. Trevor Howard is a doctor, slightly bald, whose suits...
...much hope? Seemingly, he must walk the razor's edge between cynicism and sentimentalism, a man of faith, but yet one who constantly submits that faith to rigorous analysis and criticism. A man determined not to confine his ideals to noble platitudes, but to afford them real meaning by comparison of various concrete approximations of those ideals. And, finally, not a revolutionist, yet something more than a gradualist--a believer in "rapid evolution...
...Fletcher Ray. The film script, originally based on this book . . . deals with the life of Jesus, whereas that excellent book, The Robe, does not deal with the life of Jesus. What I said was that the little short films made by non-profit-making Cathedral Films, Inc. were, by comparison, so good that they beat all other religious films to date "into a cocked...
...rubles a month, and bishops rate as high as 25,000 to 40,000 rubles per month. With the official exchange rate of 12 rubles to a dollar, such salaries look pretty tempting even to prosperous Americans. . . . What these figures mean in Russia may be gauged by comparison with the average earnings of unskilled workers, which in one factory were given as 480 rubles per month; of skilled workers, 900 to 1,100 rubles per month; of engineers, 1,500 to 2,000 rubles per month...