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Would Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth make up? From coast to coast, it was a burning question for the press...
This week Station Owners Bernie and Rita Jacobs announced that WFMT was operating in the black. Seven months ago they had run the station without help. Now there is a staff of six. Like Manhattan's cultural (and partly audience-sponsored) WABF, the Jacobs station is unabashedly highbrow: Debussy's St. Sebastien, Hindemith's Herodiade, the BBC recordings of The Canterbury Tales; Verdi's Macbeth. All works are played in their entirety and without interruption for commercials or station breaks. No work is repeated within three months...
...endless repetition of phone numbers. Commercials are limited to one minute in length and a maximum of 2½ minutes in any hour. Despite these advertising curbs, WFMT reports good results: a commercial for a diamond-tipped phonograph needle brought the sponsor a 150% boost in sales. Says Rita Jacobs: "The kind of listeners we have have very big ears...
Affair in Trinidad (Columbia) brings ambrosial Rita Hayworth back to the screen as a Trinidad nightclub entertainer who is described as "a woman with a capital W." This sentiment is roundly endorsed by Glenn Ford, who plays the older brother of Rita's husband, an artist found dead under mysterious circumstances. Another admirer of Rita's is suave Alexander Scourby, a tycoon who keeps mad dogs on his estate and is given to poring over super-rocket plans in the company of various gentlemen with Iron Curtain accents...
Before Affair in Trinidad has run its course, a good many of these parties have been eliminated by being hit over the head, run down by automobiles, stabbed and shot. In between, Rita shakes her mop of lustrous hair and undulates her silken torso as she sings such numbers as Trinidad Lady and I've Been Kissed Before. If the moviegoer has a feeling that he has seen all this before, it may be because Affair in Trinidad bears a marked resemblance to the 1946 Hayworth-Ford picture Gilda...