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...troublous question of all, two of the oldest and foxiest independent moviemakers last week gave an answer that may give other independents an idea. To insure a Broadway outlet for their productions, Producers Samuel Goldwyn* and David Selznick leased Manhattan's famed, 40-year-old, 1,140-seat Astor Theater from the owner-operator, City Investing Co. Major C. I. request:" Goldwyn & Selznick keep the Astor as well supplied with pictures as did former tenant Loew...
...often posed for his drawings, has been generally credited with being the real Gibson Girl. The artist first saw her at Delmonico's, arranged to meet her at tea the next day, and married her a year later. She was Irene Langhorne, a Virginia beauty, sister of Lady Astor...
...Nancy Astor, Britain's tart-tongued, opinionated, Virginia-born peeress-politico, first woman to sit in the House of Commons, announced that she would retire from 25 years of politics at term's end, confided, "I will not fight the next election because my husband does not want me to. ... I am bound to obey. Is not that a triumph for men?" Said, her husband, Lord Astor: "When I married Nancy, I hitched my wagon to a star. When she got into the House I found I had hitched my wagon to a sort of V-2 rocket...
Tart-tongued, opinionated Lady Astor made news last week: she publicly spoke up for Russian Communism. Said the Virginia-born viscountess to assembled correspondents interviewing her on the 25th anniversary of her parliamentary career: "Communism in Russia has taught the people to read. A people can't think or reach God until they learn to read. I don't dislike Russian Communism. It has changed the European policy of keeping the people poor and ignorant-look at Spain and Italy...
...rechristened with its present name, the Times has never missed an issue. It is still published from the office at Printing House Square which was the home of its founder, the first John Walter. John Walter V is today the Times's co-owner (with Colonel John Jacob Astor...