Word: goods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much fun from out front as from the stage. When the cast went down into the aisles to dance a Boomps-a-Daisy with members of the audience, up rose Al Smith to tread a measure with alacrity and abandon, drew a storm of applause for being both a good boompser and a good sport. A little later Funnyman Robert Benchley was presented with a live chicken, Little-Man-What-Next Billy Rose with a child's potty-chair...
Wearing a short circular skirt and woolen shirt, her strokes as powerful as ever and her reflexes as quick, Oldster Sears amazed the galleries with her extraordinary stamina and agile court coverage, amused them with her rambunctious mannerisms and screaming but good-natured queries to the referee-as though he were way down in the cellar tending the furnace...
Governor Eurith D. Rivers proclaimed a Statewide holiday, prepared to call out the National Guard. Atlanta's Mayor William B. Hartsfield proclaimed a three-day festival. To Georgia it was like winning the battle of Atlanta 75 years late, with Yankee good will thrown in and the direct assistance of Selznick International (which made the picture...
Scarlett. Midway in producing G With the W, Producer Selznick decided he was in no hurry to get going. The novel was too fresh in people's minds, which meant that they would be critical of any picturization no matter how good. Selznick still had nobody to play Scarlett O'Hara, and for more than two years he maintained himself in this useful and exciting dilemma with tenacity and an astute sense of showmanship. Polls were taken, scouts were despatched, a play about the search was written, had been running two months-and still no Scarlett...
Clearly the time had come to find Scarlett O'Hara. The historic discovery happened (by great good luck) to coincide with the first takes of Gone With the Wind -the burning of Atlanta...