Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nowhere into the here came Big Steel (which Economist Roberts rates as an industrial group by itself) converting a $12,000,000 deficit to a $12,000,000 profit. Steel's third quarter report last week showed its Cinderella common stock back in the black to the tune of $10,420,445-47? a common share, and showed $5.16 operating profit per ton shipped; it is operating at close to 90%. Even more spectacular was the record of Bethlehem Steel, which makes money at a lower rate of operations than its big brother, which is now operating at full...
...delightfully refreshing Cinderella in modern dress, a sophisticated melodrama, and an Information Please short combine to form a strange but highly entertaining bill. Cinderella is Deanna Durbin, of course, in "First Love." She sings as well as ever; she looks as delicious as ever, but above all she is less noisy than before, which is certainly an asset. The picture, original in its angle, frankly follows along the lines of the Cinderella story even to the lost slipper. Only the coach and six is transformed into the Commissioner's car and a large escort of motorcycle police...
...second feature is built around the most threadbare of trite plots, the Cinderella story, but it at times reaches a brilliance of satirical comedy that is beyond most second features. Based on life at a Princeton week-end (Princeton is called Kingsford), the picture gives a fair conception of a gay time in those ivy-covered walls and takes high society for a bitter ride. Outside of that it also introduces an excellent portrayal by Lana Turner of an all too, too naive taxi-dance girl...
...round, on the sidelines were the great Johnny Goodman, who has also won the National Open (1933), Willie Turnesa, 1938 Amateur champion, many other top-flights. Still in stride, however, among the 16 survivors, were: 1) Poughkeepsie's Ray Billows, golf's handsome, glamorous, 25-year-old Cinderella Man, who got a toehold on golf fame in 1935 by driving to swank Winged Foot on the Sound in a $7 jalopy to win the New York State title; and 2) 26-year-old, icy-veined Marvin ("Bud") Ward, of Spokane, a golfers' golfer. Three years ago nobody...
Portraying the rustic Cinderella who comes to Hollywood via the movie quiz route is D. Gordon Halstead '40. James H. Legendre '40 plays the erring matinee idol, and Philip C. Starr '40 takes the part of his leading lady. The three producers are Richard E. Lewis '40, William, D. Collins '40 and James T. Devine '40; James G. Walsh '39 plays the manager of the box office team...