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Fashion Means Business (MARCH OF TIME) compactly investigates that heavy, nervous industry which whets woman's desire to improve, with various fabrics and gewgaws, upon the pelt God gave her. The film ranges, within 18 minutes, from the elegant fountainheads of Parisian and U.S. design, to those frenetic dress foundries along Manhattan's Seventh Avenue in which as many as 100 identical garments are cut in a few swerves of power-driven super-scissors. There are also instructive glimpses of the machinery which stamps a season's fashions upon a whole continent at once: the fashion magazines, the provincial tfashion editors, the out-of-town buyers. Respects are also paid to I.L.G.W.U., a strong, shrewd union which realizes that management's Golden Goose needs feeding as well as bleeding. This 18-minute treatment does not pretend to exhaust its sprawling subject. Interesting omissions: 1) fashion hijackers; 2) Hollywood, as a fashion influence; 3) that increasingly rare type of well-dressed woman who dresses as best becomes her beauty, and fashion be damned.

Easy Come, Easy Go (Paramount) is a pleasant fable about the pure-in-heart that doesn't quite come off. Barry Fitzgerald is the lovable old scamp who cadges drinks, throws away $2 bets on the ponies and schemes to bust up the romance between his daughter (Diana Lynn) and her young man (Sonny Tufts).

John McNulty helped to write the movie from his amiable New Yorker stories about the Third Avenue saloon set, but he neglected to give some pretty capable actors enough material to keep the customers interested.

Clandestine (Cine Selection; Western Hemisphere),a story of the French underground, has scenes of violence, courage and danger which rival those in Open City. The good spots are vitiated by 1) love-stuff that is watered-down Hollywood, and 2) a trite The-Americans-Are-Coming finish.

U.S. films long ago went "international" in style. Clandestine--which is pretty good and 100% European at its best--suggests what will happen when foreign films try too hard to make themselves acceptable to U.S. audiences.

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