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Meanwhile Trustbuster Thurman Arnold joined the fray, charged the producers with "harsh, onerous and unfair trade practices," indicted Hollywood's Big Eight (Loew's, Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO Radio, 20th-century Fox, Columbia, Universal, United Artists) under the antitrust laws. His announced objective was to divorce production and distribution, make the big producers ' give up their 2,400 theatres. Last spring he called the industry a dictatorship, insisted it must be reorganized. While independent exhibitors cheered, the Big Eight sent their lawyers to Washington...
They Knew What They Wanted (RKO Radio). When Tony Patucci (Charles Laughton), a porky, affable Italian winegrower in California's Napa Valley, tries to patch up a quarrel between his ranch foreman (William Gargan) and his mail-order bride (Carole Lombard), he argues that "Peoples no should fight," then speaks a little preachment on friendliness. During the filming of this scene one hot day last July, sprightly, spindly, 27-year-old Director Garson Kanin objected to Laughton's delivery as too much Laughton, not enough Tony. A director-actor fight followed which had Hollywood gossips' pens wagging...
Power and the Land (RKO Radio). Dutch-born Joris Ivens (pronounced eevuns) is a sturdy pioneer in the neglected art of documentary films. Since 1928 he has been lugging his camera far & wide, cranking away on scenes of commercial fishing in Holland (The Breakers), mining in Belgium (Borinage), fighting in Spain and China (Spanish Earth, The 400,000,000). Trying to sell his product in competition with the fast freight from Hollywood has taught Ivens he must unwind his factual, sometimes statistical, accounts without making his reel resemble a Fitz-Patrick Travelogue or a photostatic copy of a balance sheet...
Dance, Girl, Dance (RKO Radio) solemnly relates a jumbled account of the trials & tribulations borne by pretty showgirls. A well-turned strip-teaseuse (Lucille Ball) rooms with an earnest, apple-cheeked ballerina (Maureen O'Hara). Lucille wants money, Maureen success. Lucille winds up draped in furs and sparkling gewgaws but with no suggestion of purity. Maureen winds up with a job in the American Ballet after teary, trying weeks capering to the jibes of burlesque fans. Contrary to all Hollywood tradition, neither winds up with a man when the alcoholic playboy they both want (Louis Hay ward) is dragged...
...Irene (RKO). Only a few British cinemactresses have kicked their way up from the chorus to stardom-Evelyn Laye, Jessie Matthews, Anna Neagle. None is quite so fair as Anna Neagle...