Word: duel
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...Denver, Columnist Randolph Churchill, who had attracted attention to himself by reporting a bathroom conversation with a plumber (TIME, Feb. 10), now bravely faced a platform duel with a carpenter. From New Jersey the carpenter wired a challenge to a "debate on the merits of the British Empire." Winston's son referred the matter to his lecture manager...
...every other famed achievement of the composer's lifetime except his streamlining of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunoff. The Metropolitan Opera's Charles Kullman, as the ship's tenor doctor, sings some of the compositions; Miss de Carlo dances several more. There is also an energetic duel with whips. Miss Arden and ship's Captain Brian Donlevy look on as if they could think of far better things to do and say the minute the cameras stop. It is all very foolish and, thanks to a heavy undertone of parody, bearably amusing...
...Legion of Decency only because a Technicolor strike had delayed prints of it until too late. Moreover, the film had not yet been distributed nationally. Selznick murmured that there might be some revisions. But an extended ban by the Catholic Church would mean plenty of trouble. Duel, already expensively delayed, could not be held up and revised if it was to gross the $20,000,000 that Selznick expected...
...might also interfere with Selznick's more important plans to form his own distributing company (TIME, Dec. 23). Unlike Hughes, to whom movies are just a sideline, Selznick was in no position to capitalize, publicity-wise, on the objections of church organizations. Theater owners might refuse to show Duel rather than risk their displeasure, a decision which would cost Selznick about $2,000,000 in New York City alone...
...week's end, while Selznick claimed that Duel's grosses in Los Angeles were running some 25% better than Gone With the Wind, he was still undecided on the next move. "After all," he said hopefully, "the Legion of Decency hasn't even seen the picture and it isn't classified yet. The archbishop merely issued a warning...