Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bennett Field, which they reached 24 hr., 22 min. after leaving Southport. Their backer, Wall Street Operator Ben Smith who incorporated under the extraordinary title "Anglo-American Good-Will Coronation Flight Corp.," at once set about selling his exclusive set of pictures to U. S. magazines and newspapers at fat prices (see p. 17). To Flyers Merrill & Lambie will go 90% of the proceeds...
...Besides, they tend to congregate in restaurants just as at the University of Michigan, 'chewing the fat,' criticizing the faculty and talking about overturning the government. They go over ... to get a couple of glasses of beer sometimes, which isn't a good idea for the morning classes...
Most omnivorous producers in Hollywood are Warner Brothers, who get a fat share of their material by backing or buying more Manhattan plays than any of their rivals. At last week's convention in Manhattan, Warner executives boasted about $5,000,000 worth of stories already on their shelves to choose from. This year's 60 Warner productions will include eleven Manhattan plays, among them Tovarich, Yes, My Darling Daughter, Boy Meets Girl, White Horse Inn, On Your Toes. Also scheduled are two Technicolor pictures ; The Story of Emile Zola, to go with last year's Louis...
...take off late this week and, soaring eastward over the North Sea off the low coast of Europe, skirt that continent up to the jigsaw peninsula and archipelago which separate the North Sea from the Baltic. Over Germany's sandy Frisian Islands it would pass, over the fat fields of Schleswig-Holstein, over the belts (straits) of Denmark to tidebitten Zealand Island on whose eastern promontory, only three miles from Sweden across the Sound, lies clean, quiet Copenhagen. From the plane landing at Kastrup, Denmark's top-ranking airport, would step Denmark's broad-shouldered Crown Prince...
...fragile anecdote, Cafe Metropole turns out to be thoroughly entertaining. Russian Actor Ratoff, who wrote the story from which Author Jacques Deval (Tovarich) adapted the screen play, acts his fat part with the enthusiasm it deserves, sets the pace for the rest of a cast of which each member is performing a specialty in which he is tops. Good shot: Adolphe Menjou, Hollywood's ablest exponent of the art of playing maitre d' hotel since The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926), introducing a dish of wild strawberries, brought from Algeria by special plane...