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That night, Elizabeth Parsons had a few drinks to calm her nerves, and an R.A.F. doctor gave her sodium amytal as a sedative. Shortly after 9 o'clock, she went into the rooms where her two sons, Darryl John, 2½, and Edmund, 4, lay sleeping. Later, the wing commander and his wife found her standing in the bathroom, clad in a sarong, with her slashed wrists bleeding into the bathtub. "I have planned it a long time," said Mrs. Parsons. "If one of us went, the other would not live. I have killed my children. We loved...
...DARRYL F. ZANUCK...
Which way would the movies go? Fox was sticking with CinemaScope, and last week Warners announced that they would make 22 pictures in 3-D. Nevertheless, only one thing was sure, and Darryl Zanuck said it: "The small screen is through, through!" It was up to the public to decide what comes next, and last week the theater owners of the U.S. were moving at top speed to give the public an early chance to decide. Thousands of them had signed orders for "all-purpose screens" that can show everything from Cinema-Scope on down...
Last week Green drew a bead on a new target: 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. As spokesman for about $600,000 of the company's stock (which at current market prices represents about 40,000 shares), he charged President Spyros Skouras and Production Boss Darryl Zanuck with "false and fictitious expenses" and "gross mismanagement," filed a lawsuit to break their contracts with the company. Under the contracts, Zanuck is paid $260,000 a year and Skouras $250,000. The contracts also provide for payments of $750.000 to Zanuck's estate and $250,000 to Skouras' if either...
...nearest town. Snorted Hannagan: "The columnists will soon be cracking 'Ketchum and fleece 'em.'" As he felt the warm sun, Hannagan said: "Call it Sun Valley." Soon his bathing beauties were wearing skis. Hannagan hauled out trainloads of celebrities (e.g., 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck, Author Ernest Hemingway and Crooner Bing Crosby), knowing that if they liked it others would follow. Zanuck especially liked it; he even made a movie called It Happened in Sun Valley...