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...Fairy of a Chicago kiddies' TV program, is now 17 and has come quite a distance from the imitation mushrooms of the Loop's Blue Forest. Black-haired and hazel-eyed, Brigid went to Spain last summer and, without veils, took the role of Salome in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's King of Kings (ready for October release). With a creditable performance in The Honeymoon Machine, released last week, she has moved on to Paducah, Ky.. to play a tough-talking frontier girl in How the West Was Won, the first Cinerama film with a plot. Daughter...
With his great bull whip, so goes the legend, Columbia Pictures' late President Harry ("The White Fang") Cohn liked to snap out the lenses of his flunkies' sunglasses. That sort of management more or less characterized the feudal days when the major studio bosses-Goldwyn, Mayer, the Warners, Cohn-were almost as well known as their stars. Now that Hollywood is often duller than its pictures, the mighty name symbolizing the new Age of the Independent Producer is roughly as well known as the incumbent ruler of Bhutan...
...radical change. A case in point is Director William Wyler's forthcoming remake of Lillian Hellman's play, The Children's Hour, a study of two teachers falsely accused of Lesbianism. When the picture was first made in 1936, the Hays office kept Producer Sam Goldwyn both from announcing that he had purchased the play and from using its title (the film was released as These Three), insisted that he change the plot to a conventional heterosexual triangle. Director Wyler's new version will stick closely to Playwright Hellman's original subject matter, though...
...horse. In those days they stretched ankle-high wires across fields to make sure that Indians and horses hit the proper patch of dust. Cooper survived, got a new first name (his own was Frank, but his pressagent was homesick for Gary, Ind.) and a feature part in Sam Goldwyn's The Winning of Barbara Worth. Paramount grabbed him from Goldwyn at $125 a week. Studio pressagents tagged him the "It" boy, and tried to promote a romance with Clara Bow. Coop cooperated: he shied at couches and dimity all his life, but only on-camera...
This means that 3,000 shares of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer were sold at $54.50 per share, and 300 shares of Emerson Radio & Phonograph (ERP) at $14.87½ (in 100-share lots the zeros are always omitted). When the tape is one minute late, the first digit is dropped from the price of the sale to speed up transmission, e.g., the M-G-M notation would read 3000s4½. When three minutes behind, the last two digits of the number of shares traded are also dropped, so that the tape would read 30s4½. When five minutes late, another sending machine...