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...year ago when Turkey jilted Germany for the Allies, was reported on a shooting party with Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Italy's Count Galeazzo Ciano. (This was denied in Berlin.) Whatever plans the Axis had for Turkey in the future, the threat of German action through Bulgaria, if Turkey should help Greece, was enough to keep Turkey precariously neutral last week. President Inönü made a firm speech saying that his country would "continue faithful to our friendships and alliances" (Turkey is not committed to help Greece), devoted three paragraphs...
Question in many an independent exhibitor's mind was why Arnold had proved so lenient, failed to insist on his threatened divorce. Official explanation: the divorce threat was merely a means to a lesser end-the end of block booking. The Big Five, who have ducked an expensive legal battle and still have their theatres, are not complaining. But their costs will rise for three reasons: 1) salesmen must make the rounds once every few weeks instead of annually; 2) there must be more good pictures, fewer "turkeys," or sales will flop; 3) the new arbitration setup will cost...
Prancing into Manhattan's Loew's State theatre last fortnight went all that is left of big-time U. S. vaudeville. It was a troupe of seven energetic young cinemactors and actresses led by a columnist-Hearst's triple-threat Hollywood gossip dispenser, roly-poly Louella O. ("Lolly") Parsons. On this, her second cross-country junket, Lolly Parsons was again proving that a columnist's best business is his vaudeville, that vaudeville's best business is its columnists...
...arguing here that the repulse of the first threat means finding terms of peace with the second." And terms of peace mean "to cooperate with the masses in beginning now the revolution that has become necessary." True, this new policy of appeasement "exacts from the privileged more than they would wish to give...
George Slusser, a triple threat who plays practically every position in Coach Ossie Cowies' backfield, will probably take his place in today's lineup. Slusser passed the Eaglets dizzy and ran circles around them for most of the B. C. encounter. Two prep-school captains, Bob McLaughry and Meryll Frost, will hear the opening whistle from backfield posts...