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...when 20th Century-Fox's President Joseph M. Schenck, exasperated with Selznick's demands for Loretta Young, ordered him off the Fox lot. So far, the only person who has caught Myron Selznick napping is his friend and client, Carole Lombard. Renewing her contract with him recently, Cinemactress Lombard had printed a duplicate contract under which Selznick agreed to pay her 10% of his earnings, tricked him into signing it, jokingly demanded an accounting...
...blanket charge of conspiracy to loot Waterbury of better than $1,000,000. Last week a jury of Connecticut laborers, farmers and housewives, after a trial that had lasted nearly eight months (TIME, Dec. 26), finally cogitated the conduct of Hayes & Co. Eager crowds, including Cinemactress Rosalind Russell (home from Hollywood on vacation), packed in and around the courtroom to hear the verdict: "Guilty." Tears filled the hard eyes of Boss Hayes, 56. "It was in the cards," he gulped, but he strode out of court with his chin up. State's Attorney Alcorn broke his 30-year precedent...
...anyone who saw Hedy Lamarr in Algiers, it is plain that M.G.M. is on the side of M. Delaroch. In mood and decor, Lady of the Tropics is a faithful echo of the Wanger picture that introduced Cinemactress Lamarr to the U. S., made her the most celebrated siren of the screen since Theda Bara. After spending a small fortune on a picture with Spencer Tracy that had to be junked, M.G.M. handed Hedy and Screenwriter Ben Hecht over to Producer Sam Zimbalist, fresh from Tarzan Finds A Son. Practical Mr. Zimbalist, correctly figuring that audiences would like a picture...
West's pressagent, a photographer. Posed in her Hollywood apartment, Cinemactress West and Leader Buchman smiled happily, swapped compliments. Beamed Mae, billowy in pink negligee: "It is a wonderful work. ... I owe all my success to the kind of thinking Moral Re-Armament is." Gallantly responded Dr. Buchman: "You are a splendid character, Miss West. You have done wonderful work...
...Then Cinemactress West suggested as a likely convert to MRA her coming costar, raffish W. C. Fields. "Give it to him in a bottle and he'll go for it," she told Dr. Buchman, promised, "If you reform Bill I'll let him win me in our next picture." But raucous, red-nosed Bill Fields proved recalcitrant. Said he: "I'll take anything in a bottle. But I don't need re-armament...