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...Discipline. Neither side had their hearts in the quarrel. The Greeks fell back, firing at random. A stray bullet killed a British officer, the affair's only casualty. At 3:45 a.m. a grimy mutineers' delegation asked for terms; above all, they wanted Greek political unity. Tight-lipped British officers listened politely, then told the delegation to go back, get properly cleaned up and return with an unconditional surrender. By the dawn's half-light the Greeks were back, clean and submissive...
...Roger Lapham, who has pledged himself to one nonpartisan term in office, made 70 speeches in three weeks. On a newsman's suggestion, he began calling up housewives at random, explaining the proposal to them in five-minute chats. On the Saturday before election he drove an old-fashioned horsecar, drawn by two white horses, for a two-mile trip along Market Street. The car was followed by a modern bus from which a loudspeaker blared: "I've been waiting for a streetcar all the livelong...
...Robe (RKO), from Lloyd Douglas' bestseller, will be filmed in Technicolor at a cost of $3½ to 4 million, will run 3½ to 4 hours, and will be directed by Hit-Guarantor Mervyn LeRoy (Random Harvest, Madame Curie). ¶ The Miracle (Warner), based on Max Reinhardt's hyperpituitary Gothic superspectacle, is budget-estimated by Producer Wolfgang (son of Max) Reinhardt at $3,000,000. Biggest casting problem: an actress adequate for the double role of nun and Madonna. The film will be in Technicolor, and will run the better part of four hours...
Newsmen in Switzerland reported that the reprisals had just begun. Hours later, according to these reports, vans carried 300 to the ancient, crumbling Colosseum where once gladiators fought and Christians died. They had been picked at random...
...Boston papers, "Lassie Come Home" arrived at the Loew's State and Orpheum theatres. Surprising as it may seem after reading the rather insipid advertisements, the picture is one of the finest to come out of MGM in recent years. It ranks, as the ads have said, with "Random Harvest" and "Mrs. Miniver." But, instead of the case being "great books make great pictures," it is a situation where the acting of a collie has made an overly-sentimental book into a really touching picture...