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This thumbnail review by an indiscreet studio executive was about all that the public really had to go on before RKO rushed Producer-Director Rossellini's Stromboli into more than 400 U.S. theaters this week. After loudly ballyhooing the movie for weeks as a kind of lurid peepshow ("Raging Island, Raging Passions"), the studio had suddenly refused all advance screenings for movie critics. The reason, RKO frankly admitted, was fear that unfavorable reviews might cool the fever of public interest in the Stromboli idyll of Director Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman (TIME...
Walter Winchell (some 800 papers, circ. some 25,000,000) runs a Broadway-Miami-Washington-Reno-Hollywood gossiporium which "suggests a continuous vaudeville entertainment in progress on a rubberneck bus en route to a peepshow and yet it may be the most effective pro-American propaganda medium in the country. . . ." In suggesting that Walter Winchell is the No. 1 propagandist-ideologue for World War II, Columnist Fisher may well be right. But last week Congressman Martin Dies, investigator of un-American activities, was planning to put Mr. Winchell under the magnifying glass...
...Peepshow," the new sophisticated comedy by Ernest Pascal, is a much better show than it has any right to be. Excellent performances by a cast including John Emery and his wife, Tamara Geva, put the show over and make it second only to "Mexican Hayride" as the best entertainment in the city...
...Saga of San Demetrio is a labor of patriotism by the grandniece of Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson and the author of the remarkable psychological study A Pin to See the Peepshow. Rather touchingly old-fashioned in its style, it is marred by such phrases as "the simple faith of sailormen" and "these unalterable British!" It suffers, inevitably, from being told at secondhand. But it is an honorable and exciting account of an exceedingly honorable, exciting-and true-event...
...calendar for July, a weather report for August (rain), a picture of a blonde undressing and directions to find page 2. Pages 2 and 3 are mostly margin, "so that NO one can read OVER YOUR SHOULDER!" Page 4 is a set of false whiskers, page 5 a peepshow. Other features: a two-way editorial ("Can this go on? Sure! No!"), a page of letters to readers ("instead of printing letters from readers who tell us how lousy our magazine is"). The back cover, an "acquaintance maker," says: "Yoo hoo! How's about a date tonight? (All you have...