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Flunkies at Grosvenor House, swank London hotel, chortled behind their hands last week as they recounted an embarrassing incident that lately befell their No. 1 guest, 73-year-old His Highness Ala'idin Suleimin Shah, Sultan of Selangor in the Federated Malay States. The Sultan, happily attired to meet the demands of East & West in yellow silk trousers and a European overcoat, stood boggle-eyed before the hotel's rapidly twirling swing-door, was completely baffled. With Oriental arrogance he tried to pass through in the opposite direction to that in which the door was turning...
When strangers call at the dingy house in London's Grosvenor Street where London Films has offices, they are likely to be surprised when a fatigued-looking young man, who has ushered them from an anteroom into a comfortable but shabby little office, then seats himself behind its desk and says: "I am Mr. Korda." That, at 42, Kingpin Korda looks and acts like anything but a Hollywood cinemagnate is no accident. A bright young Budapest journalist who got interested in the cinema in 1916, he reached Hollywood by way of Vienna, Rome and Berlin in 1925. His Private...
Since The Private Life of Henry VIII put new capital and new life into the British cinema industry, U. S. producers have been debating whether the brains behind the shabby desk in Grosvenor Street were really capable of supplying them with serious competition for the world cinema markets. Last week they knew the answer. Things to Come may or may not entrance U. S. cinemaddicts but it is likely to make bigwigs in Hollywood scratch their heads about a future much more immediate than...
...Washington, Grosvenor Dawe, director of Plain Talk Institute, called for a boycott of all advertisers sponsoring Columbia programs...
...Dance Director William Holbrook are already selecting possible talent for the forthcoming Hasty Pudding Show of 1936, entitled "The Lid's Off". Choruses are at work practicing and the cast is rapidly approaching completion. Members of the ensemble at present include, Francis A. Wendell '37, Donald Rowell '37, W. Grosvenor Davis '37, F. Lee Wendell '38, H. Shippen Goodhue '38, Renouf Russell '38, John A. Roosevelt '38, Willliam S. Pier '38, Benjamin Welles 2d '38, Gilbert E. Jones '38, Cammann Newberry '37, Fitz William Sargent '38, Charles S. Mac Veigh Jr. '38, E. Allan Dennison '37, John MaC. Graham...