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Adviser to Girls. Returning to the U.S. in 1933, Antheil settled in Hollywood where he did cinema scores for Cecil de Mille and Ben Hecht, got himself a villa with swimming pool. Suddenly he moved out into a small suburban bungalow and gave up symphonic composing altogether. "I didn't feel like writing music any more," says he, "I felt that I was wrong or the world was wrong, and I decided to find...
...Hecht's abridged translation of Timoveyev's "Soviet Classical Tradition" describes clearly the continuity within the transition experienced by Soviet literature, and gives the reader familiar only with Russian classics a basis for appreciation of contemporary Soviet effort. More detailed articles by Professors Cross and Dana on Russian literature and drama as well as J. Leyda's review of the marine engineer turned guerilla after cinema complete the issue's critical material. Many readers will find these articles unnecessarily full of unfamiliar names, but the net effect is a fine picture of the creative artistry which, under government auspices...
...archtypical Hollywoodman, John Decker, 47, was born in San Francisco. In his young manhood he appeared briefly on the stage, remembers playing a part in a Maxwell Bodenheim-Ben Hecht playlet called Master Poisoners. When his theatrical career flopped, he launched himself as an independent artist by cleverly copycatting famed portraits in which he substituted the face of his current sitter. Decker's first work of this kind was an "old master" portrait of divinely crosseyed Comedian Ben Turpin. Then he painted Charlie Chaplin in the style of twelve old & new masters including Frans Hals, Picasso, Howard Chandler Christy...
Born. To Ben Hecht, 49, ace movie scribe, playwright (The Front Page), and Rose Cay lor Hecht, 45, onetime dramatist, his second wife: their first child, his second daughter, Jenny; in Manhattan. Weight...
...Hughes and his friend, Director Howard Hawks, who had helped him make Scarface eight years before, decided to collaborate in producing a Ben Hecht script-biography of Billy the Kid. For the chief roles Hughes insisted on new faces, specified the girl must be "primarily sexy." The Hughes lightning struck Californian Jane Russell, 19, a dentist's receptionist. Also struck: Texan Jack Beutel, 21, a studio hanger-on (Hughes changed his name to Buetel...