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Hochschild, called "Don Mauricio" by his well-wishers, is a big, bland man of 62 with a big, bald head, heavy brown eyebrows. He eats hugely, spills cigar ashes on his stomach, claims a stock of 2,000 jokes in various languages. He is charitable to nuns, priests, refugee Jews, and likes to hand out expensive Havana cigars as if they were calling cards...
M.G.M. London Films is run by a team. One member is its chairman and managing director, Hungarian-born Sir Alexander Korda. The other is his deputy, Manhattan-born Ben Goetz. Cigar-smoking, affable, Goetz studied law, gave it up in 1912 for a job with Crystal Film Co. in The Bronx. He was soon studio manager, and director, had a hand in starting Pearl White, later made famous by the palpitating Perils of Pauline. Goetz was one of the founders of Erbograph Co., which merged with Consolidated Film Industries, Inc., in 1924, was executive vice president when he joined M.G.M...
...brisk a blaze of controversy as the destroyer detail of the window recently ordered removed from the Chapel of Our Lady of Victory at the Norfolk Naval Operating Base (TIME, April 10). The new window will be unveiled this week in St. Andrew's Church, Cransley, Northamptonshire. A cigar may touch off the fireworks. The window shows the signing of the Atlantic Charter (1941). Below the guns of the battleship Prince of Wales sit President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, who is, as usual, smoking a cigar...
Once in a great while a biceps unflexes, and the result is a good act. W. C. Fields, looking worn-&-torn but as noble as Stone Mountain, macerates a boozy song around his cigar butt and puts on his achingly funny pool exhibition with warped cues. Donald O'Connor continues to prove himself a Mickey Rooney with some unspoiled, big-Adam's-apple charm to boot. Orson Welles, as a nice parody of a magician, saws Marlene Dietrich in two and watches her better half walk off with the act. Sophie Tucker, the Manassa Mauler of her field...
...hear the verdict. ("Guilty of murder in the second degree") which ended the homosexual's trial for strangling his wife. Lonergan faced a sentence of from 20 years to life. The state had tried for a first-degree (electric chair) conviction. Before the jury reached its decision, cigar-gnashing Lonergan Counsel Edward Broderick explained why he had not put Lonergan on the stand: "I saw the weaknesses in the state's case." Lonergan's conviction was also a legal milestone in the life of Wayne William Lonergan, the convict's 22-month-old son -- heir...