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...best seller is Jan Valtin's Out of the Night, which has already pushed beyond the 400,000 mark. The man who could tell them how it was done is Alliance's President Henry Gunther Koppell, 46, who in two years has steered Alliance from a resounding flop with its first novel (Hermann Kesten's The Children of Guernica) to resounding success with Out of the Night. His formula: 1) "I don't believe in top-heavy lists just for the turnover"; 2) (wiggling his digits) "I have a finger feeling for the trends." The rest...
...opera records. Once he got a job as waiter, then as chef, in a restaurant near the Met, so that he could spend his spare time there. Back in Chicago, he labored over his puppets, in 1938 gave a public show which was a critical success but a financial flop. In 1939 he was signed up by Gas Exhibits, Inc. at the New York World's Fair, performed his repertory-Carmen, Faust, Rigoletto, Pagliacci, Aïda, Traviata, Cavalleria Rusticana-to audiences which were 85% grownup. Since the autumn of 1939 the troupe has toured 100,000 miles...
...flattest flops of Broadway's flop-heavy season flopped into oblivion last week - Boudoir after eleven showings, Popsy after four...
...Broadway producers . . . take a backer's money, put on a show nobody wants to see and at a cost beyond all reason. When it flops they don't seem to mind. They just look around for another sucker and do another flop show. Do you realize that more than $1,000,000 has been thrown away so far this season on ... shoddy, flimsy, artificial trifles that even the producers themselves, in many cases, knew could never succeed? Who does it help to put on shows like that? Maybe the producer makes a quick profit...
...Smith (in the pre-Hitler version her name was Schmidt) is a small-town girl who misses marrying her man when she misses a rendezvous, later sets up housekeeping with him in Manhattan. Brown-haired, flop-eared Margaret Sullavan plays Ray with pixy charm almost to exhaustion. Charles Boyer plods through the whole thing with the detached air of a man whose mind is on something else. Most nerve-racking scene: Boyer on his deathbed, after a heart attack, struggling to articulate a last message to his ladylove-by telephone...