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United Artists planned to distribute a minimum of 22 feature pictures?produced DARRYL ZANUCK . . . pitches his picture high by 20th Century. Samuel Goldwyn, Reliance, London Films, Viking Productions and Walt Disney. Most active company releasing through? United Artists is Darryl Zanuck's lively year-old 20th Century. Toothy, excitable little Producer Zanuck plays much polo, squeaks at his teammates in the same shrill tones he uses in story conferences. He likes bombastic entertainment, pictures with high pitch. The Zanuck touch should improve Cardinal Richelieu with George Arliss; Jack London's Call of the Wild; Ronald Colman in Clive of India...
Amid all this international finance Nathan Rothschild is not too preoccupied with his moneybags to observe a subplot which Producer Darryl Zanuck is hatching under his nose. His pretty daughter Julie (Loretta Young) has become attached to Wellington's aide. Captain Fitzroy (Robert Young). When his treatment in the matter of the loan convinces Nathan Rothschild that even in England Jews have an inferior social status, he forbids their marriage, sends Julie off to visit her grandmother (Helen Westley) in Frankfort. When he arrives there for a visit, there are riots in the Ghetto, instigated by sulky Baron Ledrantz...
...nursery. The girl (Glenda Farrell) who precedes Bradshaw as "Nellie Nelson" is overfond of inelegant cliches like "So you can't take it." When Bradshaw sits down to write a column, he does it with one sheet of paper in his typewriter. Hi, Nellie is one cut above Darryl Zanuck's feeble Advice to the Lovelorn which it copies, but its only veracity is a performance by Ned Sparks as an embittered legman. Good shot: tiny Sidney Skolsky, Holly-wood columnist for the New York Daily News, making his cinema debut when emerges timidly a nightclub wash room...
...cause of last summer's most widely publicized Hollywood brawl. Gossip that incidents in the picture resembled incidents in the career of Dancer Ruby Keeler caused Miss Keeler's husband, Mammy Singer Al Jolson, to punch Colyumist Walter Winchell, who suggested the story to Producer Darryl Zanuck (TIME, July 31). Broadway Through a Keyhole shows Crooner Jolson's grounds for fisticuffs were inadequate. The heroine of the picture (Constance Cummings) works at a night club run by a harridan named Tex Kaley (Texas Guinan). Ruby Keeler was once one of Texas Guinan's "little girls...
Twentieth Century is the first important new producing company formed in Hollywood in four years. It is a direct result of last spring's bank holiday and the consequent studio shutdown. When all Hollywood employes were on half-salary or less in March, Production Chief Darryl Francis Zanuck of Warner Brothers promised his underlings to restore their pay on the date set by the Cinema Academy...