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...typewriter and thereby set a new record for keyhole journalism. No secret was Hedda Hopper's news about the President's eldest son: Walter Winchell had hinted at it months ago, rumors had drifted about Hollywood and Washington ever since James Roosevelt became Vice President of Samuel Goldwyn, Inc., leaving his wife Betsy (daughter of the late, great Surgeon Harvey Gushing) in the East...
...Miss Hopper stepped up to the Roosevelt door, rang and rang, roused up a friend, who roused up James Roosevelt. Samuel Goldwyn's Vice President appeared in a woollen bathrobe, one foot slippered, the other bare. Said he graciously: "Oh, hello, Hedda." Miss Hopper handed him the story. James Roosevelt studied it a moment, shrugged and.said...
Button-eyed Freddie Bartholomew, whose parents have sued him 16 times in four years for slices of his big Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer salary, sought to enjoin them from suits still pending, complained that they keep him in court so much that he does not have time to act properly...
...Henry Hathaway once before pooled their he-man talents in Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Although the plot demands that Filipinos be portrayed as terrified by Moro juramentados (dreadnought Mohammedans to whom killing a Christian is a sure passport to heaven), a few such scenes were deleted by Producer Goldwyn, at the request of Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon. Excellent shots: Moros catapulting from trees over a stockade to steal ammunition; Canavan encountering the head of a companion (Broderick Crawford) who encountered some Moros in the jungle...
Thunder Afloat (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a glorification of the "ash can fleet"-the homely little sub chasers whose depth bombs helped break the back of the German submarine campaign in 1918. Written by M.G.M. publicity man Ralph Wheelwright, who served on a sub chaser in World War I, with the collaboration of retired Navy Commander Harvey S. Haislip, produced with the approval and assistance of the Navy Department, which placed the remnant of the Navy's 500 World War chasers at the studio's disposal, Thunder Afloat is an able and reasonably authentic document. As entertainment...