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...Nevertheless, Paramount will road-show it, until 1945, at 75? and $1.10 minimum (matinee & evening), demanding 70% straight percentage and guaranteeing the exhibitor a 12½% profit. For GWTW, M.G.M. took 70%, guaranteed...
...onetime star of the Metropolitan (who later reduced on and for Ry-Krisp). A Los Angeles judge listened to the evidence seven weeks, found all the charges against the singer false, gave her custody of Daughter Susan April. ∽∽ Chunky, bushy-browed Thomas E. Mitchell, 46, (GWTW's Gerald O'Hara) remarried his former wife, 25 years after they were first wed. ∽∽ Rosalind Russell, Hollywood's No. 1 Bachelor Girl, denied plans to elope with Agent Frank Brisson, denied still more emphatically that she was 34 and Brisson ten years younger, ∽∽ Torchsinger...
...Diller E. Phillips Oppenheim got back safely to England from the Riviera, mum about how he did it. ∙∙U.S. Newspaper Correspondent Jay C. Allen, imprisoned at Chaumont by the Nazis for trying to slip into Unoccupied France, was given a mutton-sleeves nightshirt, a French copy of GWTW, hoped to get out this week when his go-day term expires...
More important to both was the condition in which they left their joint enterprise. The domestic grosses of GWTW ($14,000,000 to date), Rebecca ($1,800,000), other recent Selznick successes made it possible to retire $2,900,000 of debentures, 30% of which constituted Whitney's S-I investment. Company assets above & beyond were to be parceled among the common stockholders, who get their first dividend ($1,500,000) this week. Biggest stockholder was David...
While Selznick paced his office explaining the situation to reporters, he took nervous peeks at a gold wrist watch by which he futilely tries to be prompt. The watch, received shortly after the release of GWTW, bears the inscription in Whitney's handwriting: "David-Xmas, 1939. Praise de Lawd. Jock...