Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollywood called Jezebel "terrific," predicted it would slow Mr. Selznick's Wind down to a breeze. Some wag suggested that the only one who might play Scarlett O'Hara after Bette Davis' performance was Mr. Paul Muni. Fact was that Bette Davis had gone full sail before the wind...
...drama, Jezebel is slender stuff. One red dance frock in a ballroom full of white ones could not ordinarily be much of a shock to a cinemaudience. But by force of personal intensity and able acting Actress Davis gives her emotional crises a convincing importance. In fact she establishes her character so convincingly that few cinemaudiences will be persuaded that Julie's sacrificial fade-out is not just another foxy trick to get her man, dead or alive...
Since last summer the biggest unofficial fact in publishing has been that William Randolph Hearst-nearing 75 and acutely "conscious of the uncertainties of life"- is liquidating those parts of his $220,000,000 holdings which make no profit. Junking of three big dailies was strong evidence of the trend. Lease of two more was confirmation. So was consolidation of the two Hearst news services (Universal and International News), the recent disposal of the unprofitable Hearst radio station KEHE, Los Angeles, and the announcement that some $15,000,000 worth of art objects were for sale. This week Mr. Hearst...
...fact, you've went the whole route through...
...live in the city (including 200,000 Jews), there has long been an excess of doctors in the community. Three out of ten Vienna doctors are Jews. Adolf Hitler, who once lived there as a penniless house painter thinks that the populace can get along with less doctoring. The fact that last summer German doctors were permitted to attend a Viennese X-ray congress dominated by Jews last week seemed no warrant against a thoroughgoing Nazi program...