Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...COWARD...
...OWNLEY INN-Joseph C. Lincoln & Freeman Lincoln-Coward-McCann...
...spirited attack on what the movie industry still calls a Douglas Fairbanks role may at last mean a place above the Hollywood salt. Born 30 years ago in Johannesburg, son of an English banker, Actor Hayward made his London stage name as a juvenile smart enough for Noel Coward shows, his screen debut in the English version of Sorrell and Son. Brought to Hollywood four years ago, he swashbuckled promisingly in Anthony Adverse but soon ran into an unpredictable snag: he began losing his British accent. Last year Producer Edward Small rescued him from the B's and supporting...
...advocates want to know is why original editions cannot be sold for less than $2.50 to $5. Again publishers have a ready answer: they cannot sell big enough editions (50,000 copies) to make money. Once they tried it. In 1930 four Manhattan publishers-Doubleday, Farrar & Rinehart, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann-published some first editions at $1 to $1.50. They sold more copies, but lost money, dropped the experiment. To break even on a $2.50 novel, publishers figure they must sell at least 2,500 copies. On this number, they figure average costs as follows...
...real life the young Tarzan (called Boy in the film) is five-year-old John Sheffield, son of English Actor Reginald Sheffield, who once had Noel Coward for an understudy. Starting out as a 4-lb. incubator baby, little Tarzan has been undergoing special, muscle-building courses of sprouts since he was two, learning to chin himself, perform athletic improbabilities and ignore fear...