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...reads much about contemporary China, especially in the left press, he would soon come upon the name of Chen Li-fu, head of what was called the "notorious" CC clique. This Chen was presented as the embodiment of what was wrong with China; he was the villain behind the screen, the devil who wrecked all compromise and blocked all progress...
...developed an abscessed lung while entertaining troops overseas, and ended up in a Los Angeles hospital. When he recovered, Hollywood Gossip Sidney Skolsky, who had decided to film Jolson's life, had Al sing the sound track while young Larry Parks impersonated him on the screen (TIME, Oct. 7). Jolson estimates that his half-share of The Jolson Story profits will be $3,500,000 (before taxes...
...after its original release Samuel Goldwyn's personal prize package looks pretty much the same: it is still elegant extravaganza bursting with top-flight specialty entertainment. The film has a superstructure of Gershwin music (last score before the composer's death); it has as well the minty savor of screen spectacles in the Thirties which sticky current jobs somehow cannot boast...
Caligari was followed by many imitations. The picture's "basic theme-the soul faced with the seemingly unavoidable alternative of tyranny or chaos-exerted extraordinary fascination." A long procession of tyrants crossed the screen; Dr. Kracauer wonders whether their cruelties and excesses were expressions of a premonitory fear of what lay in the depths of the German soul...
...Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert clown their way through a cackle-happy screen version of Betty MacDonald's backwoods saga (TIME, April...