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After a sneak preview RKO decided that this ending was a squirm-inducer. Producer David Hempstead tinkered and cut. Miss Rogers said that patchwork was no good. So a new ending was contrived in which Miss Rogers got her bad news, bit her lip, marched off bravely to work. They were wrestling with a third version when a letter came from a war widow who had seen the sneak preview. Miss Rogers, wrote the widow, had put into words exactly what she had felt and been unable to say in all the months since her husband was killed. The first...
Died. Harold Edmund Stearns, 52, author, journalist, drinker, the '20s senior American in Paris; of cancer; in Hempstead...
...promoter who broke down his resistance was his shrewd, pretty daughter, Alicia (Mrs. Harry Guggenheim), editor and publisher of the Hempstead, L.I. Newsday (circ.: 35,000). She had tried to buy some of her father's better comic strips for her suburban sheet, but the Chicago Tribune-New York News syndicate, like most others, has a 50-mile territorial limitation on comics. So Alicia invented her own. It is scheduled to begin about Nov. 1 in eleven papers, including Father's News, Cousin Bertie McCormick's Tribune, Aunt Cissy Patterson's Washington Times-Herald and Alicia...
Producer David Hempstead, 33, broad-browed and volatile, who broke the Hollywood ice with Kitty Foyle, quit his job as Utah's Corporation Commissioner to become an RKO script reader at $30 a week. Son of a well-fixed Salt Lake City attorney, Hempstead talked to Hollywood's elder statesmen from the start in the language they understood. "You're just exactly 150% wrong!" became his standard utterance...
...also settled down (as writer, assistant producer, etc.) to learn the business. He once had a derby-hatted wooden Oscar made for himself, with the inscription: "In honor of Nunnally Johnson [astute producer and Hempstead crony] and David Hempstead, who are exactly 22½ years ahead of their time." Says he: "Oscar is to remind me I'm good; the derby hat to keep me from getting swell-headed about...