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...pictures will, for the future, be made at a lower than average (for Hollywood) cost. The Selznick idea is to develop stars rather than buy them ready made; to recruit acting and directorial talent from the Manhattan stage; to hold down production costs by avoiding some of the most flagrant waste motion common and to some extent unavoidable in cinemanufacture. Knowing observers last week suspected that the competition from RKO which Hollywood had foreseen with so much consternation two years ago, might now be forthcoming, not from a directorate of bankers but from a clever member of Hollywood...
Secretary of State Stimson read the first page of the Gardiner attack and then tossed it aside. It contained, he said, -'flagrant misstatements, evidently deliberate," and was beneath his notice. He pointed out that the full record of the London negotiations had been offered the Foreign Relations Committee, providing no publicity ensued. He scoffed at its notion of "secret agreements" on the Rapidan...
...Flagrant Abuses. To some minds it may seem a flagrant abuse that "dependent unmarried mothers" should batten on the Dole when their men are out of work, but such is the law, this battening is no abuse...
...Congressman. U. S. Judge Charles E. Woodward, deaf to entreaties, fined Bribee Rowbottom $2,000, sentenced him to a year and a day in the Federal penitentiary.* Said Judge Woodward to Rowbottom before the bar: "You have betrayed your constituents and cheapened public office. The Court cannot condone the flagrant and cynical barter and sale of public offices. The sentence must be of such nature as to deter other Congressmen from such practices...
...suppression is Germany of the film version of Erich Remarque's book "All Quiet on the Western Front" has caused much comment in the press both here and abroad. A few of the American editorials have been reprinted over here and for the most part they show such a flagrant misunderstanding of the mental attitude of those here who banned the Hollywood production that I feel that even at this last date a few words in explanation from one who is on the spot would not be amiss...