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Places where all conditions of men dwelt together in squalor, buying favors from corrupt jailers, gambling and carousing with casual visitors, rotting away their characters, were the debtors' prisons of England a century ago. Had not Charles Dickens exposed their evils (David Copperfield, Little Dorrit, etc.), had not the civilized world abolished imprisonment for debt, most citizens of the U. S. might have languished in durance vile during the years of Depression...
...Laemmle Jr. of Universal Pictures, David Selznick is the only able producing son of an able producing father in Hollywood. In an industry filled with jittery peewees, he is distinguished by being large, placid and affable. At M-G-M his most successful ventures were Viva Villa and David Copperfield, two of the most expensive pictures of last year. Of United Artists' 1935-36 schedule of 30 pictures, Producer Selznick will probably make six. The company which next autumn will revive the legend, obsolete for 13 years, "Selznick Presents" will be called David O. Selznick Productions, Inc. It will...
...served. It was the great ambition of the baker's old father, a paralytic, to assert his independence by running away to the cemetery, but as the little cart on which he propelled himself could only move in a circle, he never got there. Aunt Tirelo, like David Copperfield's Mr. Dick, was engaged on an endless historical work, proving that the sorrows of France were the fault of Marie Antoinette. Monsieur Jarridge, a notary, was in charge of the legal affairs of 99 lunatics, and amused himself by mixing up the files, finally by burning the records...
...little consequence-but the result is plain to all. Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, our former president, has an apt way of saying, 'You can't both do a thing and get credit for it and that describes our attitude. . . . The success of such films as David Copperfield and Les Miserables and of many other fine pictures is certainly a sign of progress...
...Wendy Barrie (It's a Small World). In private life also Miss Lanchester is the wife of Henry VIII (Charles Laughton). Although he is known for his plump effeminacy, she is mannish in dress. She journeyed from England to play Clickett Micawber's slavey in David Copperfield, a portrait mostly left on the cutting-room floor; appeared briefly in Naughty Marietta. As a child she refused to be educated at a young ladies' seminary, was the only girl at a small English school for boys. She ran her own night club for a while, did a turn...