Word: curely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good picturemaking with courage and a point of view. . . . Here at RKO we are continuing to plan pictures that we hope will be good films and still have something to say. It is my belief there is nothing wrong with the picture business that good pictures won't cure. DORE SCHARY Hollywood, Calif...
...When stung, stand still and look: the antidote is always found with it, namely the leaf of the yellow dock. The cure is instant...
...government was sore at business. A lot of the skyrocketing of prices, it argued, was unnecessary; e.g., it takes about three weeks to cure bacon, but as soon as higher bacon prices in the British food contracts were announced, Canadian packers boosted domestic prices to match. Price hikes on pork and veal were even less justified, the government felt, because they were not directly affected by the British contracts and there were big stocks on hand. For these, as for all other price increases, consumers blamed the government, and consumers have votes...
...said last week that he is not interested in a cure: he is doing fine and has not been sick in the past twelve years. Between 8,000 and 9,000 people, he reported proudly, have stopped him to say: "Let me hear you tick." Flynn is always happy to oblige...
...there was another buyer eying RKO last week who had never lacked nerve, and usually found the money. Railroader Robert R. Young had not been too pleased with his Eagle Lion Films Inc. His films, mostly Bs, had not impressed either the critics or the public. Young thought the cure was a chain of theaters, better production and a better distributing organization. (All this may also help British Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank, who now has a distributing agreement with Eagle Lion.) Last week, Young liked the idea of buying RKO enough to announce...