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...recent Hollywood history, Rita Hayworth makes her costarring debut in R. K. O.'s "You'll Never Get Rich," now showing at Loew's State and Orpheum. She is called upon to fill the shoes--or rather, dancing slippers--of Ginger Rogers, and to twirl the light fantastic with filmdom's ablest dancer, Fred Astaire. It's to her credit that she does a snappy job, although she is continually outshone in their dancing scenes by her flashier partner. This is a fate which was shared by La Rogers as well, and it is probably due as much...
President of Fox for a long time was Harley Lyman Clarke, Chicago utilities tycoon (Utilities Power & Light), who startled filmdom when his General Theatres Equipment, Inc. gobbled control of Fox at a crucial point in its history. Last autumn Mr. Clarke was relieved of the presidency, made chairman. In his place was put his good friend Edward Richmond Tinker, also friendly with Chase National Bank (TIME, Nov. 30). Last week Mr. Tinker assumed the chairmanship and Mr. Clarke resigned, remaining as a director. With General Theatres in receivership, control of Fox now rests with Chase National rather than with...
...mansions of filmdom are still haunted. Of "ghosties and ghoulies and a lang-leggity beasties that go bump "in the night" there is no surcease...
...entering the world of filmdom, Miss Miller has added little to the old strings in her bow; in the current production at the Fenway Theatre it is the sunny smile, agreeable voice, graceful dancing, and attractive face of old that are used as a basis for the film. Music accompanies the Miller smiles, and a tuneful tango is danced by the heroine in a way that should be a good advertisement for travel in Spain...
...studios, producers were irked by a scarcity of minor players, the lesser folk of filmdom who eagerly side with Equity: who, unlike big-salaried stars, need protective organization. Sympathetic labor unions gave Equity aid. Off San Pedro, Los Angeles seaport, a cinema was being filmed aboard a lugger. Among the cinema sailors were non-Equity actors. The real sailors cast away their marlin-spikes, refused to work. Simultaneously the Pacific Seamen's Union informed Equity President Frank Gillmore that they would work no more in cinema until the conflict was over...