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...feature of the Congress was that, even as Cardinal Dougherty was speeding up the China Sea (for the 82nd time) toward Manila, in the Vatican Pius XI was gaining strength, and as the Conte Rosso entered Manila Bay last week the Pope was being moved about in a wheeled divan, doing more work and receiving more visitors than at any time since he fell ill two months ago. As Archbishop O'Doherty said last week: "Our fervent prayers ascended to the high heavens, beseeching God to prolong life of such a great Pontiff. Thank God our prayers were heard...
After lunch home and stretch out on the divan but Madame slays me with her heavy weights, which she drops upon me, defenseless, as I lie. So that I find no comfort, and rising, pick up the small brown Mermaid books that stand between my dachshund bookends. The title-page bears the legend, from Beaumont, "I lie and dream of your full Mermaid wine". The books are plays of Beaumont and Fletcher...
...future of this oldest and greatest of British cinema companies appeared to have been definitively settled last July, not in London, but in Manhattan. Joseph Michael Schenck, chairman of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., seated appropriately on a hotel divan between his brother, President Nicholas Michael Schenck of Loew's, Inc., and the president of Gaumont-British, Isidore Ostrer, announced a three-way Gaumont deal (TIME, Aug. 3). Nick Schenck's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's production subsidiary, was going to buy one-half of Twentieth Century-Fox's minority interest in the Gaumorit-British holding...
...Joseph Michael Schenck, massive, imperturbable board chairman of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. To each newshawk Mr. Schenck handed, not a highball in the Hollywood tradition, but a formal statement confirming the biggest cinema deal of the year. Then Mr. Schenck plunked himself down in the centre of a divan, flanked by the two other principals in the triple play: his younger brother and competitor, President Nicholas Michael Schenck of Loew's, Inc., and President Isidore Ostrer of Gaumont-British Pictures Corp...
Joseph Schenck's centre position on the divan was appropriate. When he took his Twentieth Century Pictures and his ace producer, Darryl Zanuck, to Fox Film last year, he found Fox in possession of 49% voting interest in a holding company which controlled Gaumont-British. With 450 theatres and the best production in the Empire, Gaumont is the biggest factor in British cinema. The Fox interest in Gaumont-British was picked up by William Fox in 1929 for about $20,000,000, a purchase which later played a large part in toppling the silvery Fox pyramid about Founder...