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...usually verbal, to spend hundreds of thousands or millions, he has little more to do with a picture until it is ready for distribution. But then his problems begin. He is, in effect, Britain's movie censor, and as such often gets into brangles with Hollywood's Johnston Office. On one of these occasions, when there was too much "cleavage" for the Johnston Office in a Rank film, he spluttered in bewilderment: "But in England, bosoms aren't sexy...
...Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America and a man willing to give his opinion on any subject, concurred: "We must make sure that we don't chip away our freedoms to get at conspirators. ... It would be folly to do anything that in the long run proved as harmful as the things we seek to correct." His solution: ban Communists from office in unions, cooperatives and corporations...
Handel: Messiah (Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent conducting; Huddersfield Choral Society, with Isobel Baillie, soprano, Gladys Ripley, contralto, James Johnston, tenor and Norman Walker, basso; Columbia, two albums-38 sides, $22.50). An outstanding performance but not quite as good as the version done by Sir Thomas Beecham more than 15 years ago. Performance: orchestra and chorus, excellent; soloists, fair...
...Film Czar Eric Johnston, who always provides a fragrant oratorical nosegay, was in top form. Movies, he declared, are immortal art-the first new art, in fact, since Greek drama...
...concept of the untutored but common-sense country girl thrust by her God into history. The play was more than a personal achievement, however, for the VTW had assembled a supporting cast with an unusual number of almost inspired actors. Under the expert direction of Jerry Kilty and Georgina Johnston, the difficulties of the play were overcome by the entire cast...