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...trade, where Decca had been making hay. By last week U. S. Records (Royale and Varsity) had ended its first six months with an output of 1,500,000. Its biggest hit to date, Johnny Messner's suggestive She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor, had sold more than 150,000 copies...
...Producer Selznick's worries at the time of the premiere was how long it would take GWTW to make the $5,000,000 that it had to make before it began to earn any profits at all. Priced from 75? (matinee) to $2.20 (Manhattan's Astor), it had toppled house records almost everywhere. Produced for $3,850,000, it was expected to gross up to $20,000,000 in a year and a half (with foreign distribution). That would make a handsome profit for Distributor (and part owner) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Producer David Selznick (Selznick International...
Last fortnight, for the amusement of his radio audience of some 15,000,000, Fred got to jawing with Guest Lawrence Duffy, doorman at Manhattan's Hotel Astor in high times & low. The talk got around to tips. Doorman Duffy sighingly recalled a boom-time gratuity of $100. "Yes," sighed Fred, "back in '28, some of those Wall Street men used to think nothing of buying the restaurant and throwing it to the waiter as a tip. I guess some of those boys still chuckle about their financial pranks as they're sitting around up in Sing...
Nancy Langhorne Viscountess Astor is no prude but when onetime War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha (see p. 27) recently introduced the practice of paying allowances to soldiers' mistresses, she objected violently. Her objection was overruled. Last week she rounded up a delegation to raise the matter again-before new War Secretary Oliver Stanley. Lady Astor objected that the practice was both bad morals and bad business. "I know a case," she said, "in which a woman is receiving dependent allowances from three men and is now living with a fourth...
...foreigners have met Stalin, none has come to know him well. He has been interviewed by U. S. Newsmen Walter Duranty, Eugene Lyons, Roy Wilson Howard. Author Emil Ludwig and Professor Jerome Davis each once had long, serious sessions with him. Playwright George Bernard Shaw and his friend, Lady Astor, went on a lark to Moscow and saw him, too. "When are you going to stop killing people?" asked the impertinent Lady Astor. "When it is no longer necessary," answered Comrade Stalin...