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...successful Broadway premiere. He was anxious to get back to England to start work on either his master's The Doctor's Dilemma or The Millionairess. Said he: "I have a life work-one hit after another- only ready for me to make." The Reluctant Dragon (Disney-RKO-Radio) is billed as Walt Disney's fourth full-length cartoon movie. Actually, it is two and a half Disney shorts with Comic Robert Benchley and a conducted tour through the Disney works thrown in for good measure. Unlike its renowned predecessors (Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia} it does...
...editing every week. Their backlog of completed films has mounted to more than 85 pictures. This is a new high for sustained production in Hollywood. Big reason: on Sept. 1, five of the cinema industry's major studios (Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 20th Century-Fox, Paramount, RKO-Radio) will begin distributing their product according to the terms of the Government's Consent Decree, which they signed last October (TIME...
...Devil and Miss Jones (RKO Radio). It is a jolt for any old-style tycoon with a jumpy stomach and a cracker-&-milk diet to pick up the morning paper and see that he has been hanged in effigy outside a big department store he can't recall owning. It is particularly hard for old John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), a bachelor so rich and powerful that his picture hasn't appeared in the newspapers for 20 years...
Louis Mayer gathered his forces and worked fast. RKO has few theatres in which to show its films, was reminded of its reliance on the theatres of the other major companies. There were warnings that the Hearst attack would harm the whole industry. There was even guarded talk that other studios would chip in to defray the $800,000 RKO had spent on Citizen Kane...
...muscles of the Hollywood hierarchy were sufficiently frightening. At an RKO sales meeting in Chicago last week, exhibitors were told that no decision had been reached on Kane. Then, at week's end, word leaked out of Hollywood that Mr. Hearst, who still hadn't seen the film, had been approached by an unhappy RKO stockholder. Mr. Hearst admitted he really didn't care whether the film was released or not. Chances looked good that after an RKO directors' meeting in Manhattan this week, a decision would at long last be made to release the picture...