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...Hired by Louis B. Mayer after he saw her on the London stage, hustled to Hollywood, she was tested for a role in Dramatic School, instead spent her time in California having an appendectomy and weathering a siege of influenza. The flu proved lucky, since Dramatic School was a flop. MGM's present plans for her, barring illness, are, first, a part in Susan and God, then the lead in Myron Brinig's May Flavin...
Biggest moneymaker: the Shuberts' and Olsen & Johnson's production of Hellzapoppin. Most costly flop: Dwight Wiman's production of Great Lady. Most gored theme: antifascism, which begot four failures. Up the ladder: The Group Theatre, which produced Clifford Odets' intense Rocket to the Moon, revived his brilliant Awake and Sing, presented William Saroyan's over-rated but original My Heart's in the Highlands. Down the chute: Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre which, after its sensational doings last season, collapsed on Broadway with the anemic Danton's Death, on tour with...
...Spokesman Dr. Chaim Weizmann declared that under the Balfour Declaration and League of Nations mandate, the Jews have a material and moral right to a permanent national home in Palestine, particularly now when the refugee problem is so critical. Arab Spokesman Jamal al Husseini said the mandate was a flop, that Arabs had squatter's rights 2,000 years old. The demands were mutually incompatible, the demanders adamant...
...films. Thought up by Minister of Popular Enlightenment Dino Alfieri, the scheme was to tax U. S. films even further by having them distributed in Italy not by their producers' agents but by a Government-financed monopoly. Last week it became apparent that the new scheme was another flop. Having tried it for a month, U. S. producers found the terms of the monopoly prohibitive, announced through Tsar Will Hays that they had entirely ceased distributing their pictures in Italy...
...Frederic Watriss declared: "Certainly Brenda, likes being popular. So do I. We all love it. There is no problem to being the mother of a popular deb. It is the mothers of the others I'm sorry for. It must be awful to be the mother of a flop...