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Mickey Rooney. In 1937 MGM bought a play by Aurania Rouverol, called Skidding. It was a mild little piece about a small town U. S. family, named Hardy, whose ups and downs were intended to rouse no deeper emotion in theatre-goers than a tender smile through a film of happy tears. MGM proposed to turn Skidding, with title changed to A Family Affair, into a picture on a rock-bottom budget of less than...
Growing Pains (by Aurania Rouverol; producers, Arthur Lubin & Lee Shubert). To put flesh on this unremarkable play of adolescence, Producer-Director Lubin made news by rounding up a remarkable crew of adolescent semi-amateurs. He corralled Author John Erskine's daughter Anna, Actress Mary Eaton's little brother Charles. Also he got a pretty girl named Georgette McKee whose father works for the Guaranty Trust Co. and another named Jacqueline Rusling whose father keeps store in Bridgeport, and a dozen other youngsters between 15 and 18. Their stage job was to behave as they had behaved in real...
...decided not to leave in London the gold earmarked for it there, requested actual delivery. This meant more work for the Old Lady's gnomes. Grunting, they packed bars into wooden boxes. The boxes will be carried to Manhattan by seven British ships: Georgia, Carinthia, Majestic, Lancastria, Mauretania, Britannic, Aurania...
Skidding slid into Manhattan via Pasadena, where it had been subjected to an amateur performance. On the opening night, its author who rejoices in the name of Aurania Rouverol, made a demure speech before the curtain, saying how surprised she was that Broadway producers should have interested themselves in her homely frivolities...