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The Editor Speaks
I SAID IT before and I’ll say it again — a good “weeper” is bound to be a sleeper! Stay with me for a bit, and I’ll tell you why.
My wife and teenaged daughter had missed the trade screening of MGM’s “The Last Time I Saw Paris” and were planning to see it at the local neighbor¬ hood movie house. The word of mouth had been quite good and they also heard that it had some parts Paul Manning which were really “sob stuff.”
We live in a suburban area of Los Angeles where the public transportation is pretty punk. I promised to drive them to the show. At take-off time I found my car battery deader’n a mackerel. 'Then, to make matters worse, it started to pour gunboats. Natch, I couldn’t get a cab or another battery.
Sooooo, the family was stuck at home and had to watch TV. And also natch, the old man had to watch the fights! A meanie, that’s me.
During the fifth round of a pretty routine scrap, my young daughter, pretty disgusted with the world by now, groaned, “Gee whiz, why do we have to be here watching these dull fights when we could be sitting in the theatre having ourselves a good cry!”
And so, producers, there you have it from the mouth of babes. Make yourself a good weeper, a four handkerchief pic¬ ture, and brother-oh-brother, you’re really in!
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Paul Manning, •ditoriol director
Vol. 8, No. 2 February 16, 1955
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