Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fertile undulating corner of Nebraska last week produced a bumper crop of artistic excitement. David City and Shelby -18 miles apart-were each sporting a one-man painting exhibition by a native son. Both shows, first ever staged in these Nebraska towns, were smash hits. They were also too coincidental for comfort. Almost before the ink was dry on the invitations, Shelbyans and David Cityans were hopping mad at each other. There was even talk of letting the artists settle their differences with pitchforks...
...opposition (but not planned that way, insisted David Cityans) was a showing of 28 oils by 41-year-old Dale Nichols, art editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and a nationally known painter of Christmas-cardish Midwestern landscapes and Greyhound bus ads. Nichols' specialties are heart-warming red barns, picturesque blue snowhills, tree branches reaching to cobalt skies...
...feel it inevitable that three years hence I must be one of the masters of the picture business." Thus, 15 months ago, shrewd, star-bargaining Hollywood Producer David O.Selznick appraised his future. He was holding himself...
...many another Hollywood bigwig, the deal with Rank would have seemed enough of an accomplishment. But not for David Selznick, 43, who was reared in the movie business (his father headed Selznick Pictures during the last war) and had come up fast. Last week there was ample evidence that the man who had become rich and famous on Gone With the Wind was trying to move in on RKO, Hollywood's fifth largest moviemaker.* One day Selznick personnel took over the entire top floor of one RKO building. Forthwith, production was stopped cold on three RKO productions to make...
Hollywood rumor had it that David Selznick had his eye on 50% of RKO's stock. But his eyes were big. Floyd Odlum's Atlas Corp., which owns 46% of RKO, has shown no inclination to sell even one of its 1,300,000 shares...