Word: hob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government restrictions were raising hob with production. One horror: a $5,000 top on new materials used in the sets in any one picture. To movie directors who once thought nothing of spending $300,000 for stages and costumes in a single musicomedy, this is the end of the line. But the prop boys went to work, are now using such non-Hollywood items as retouched scenery, secondhand lumber, repaired costumes-even unkinked used nails. Besides this WPB has cut film use by 10% to 24%, threatens a still bigger cut next year...
...salary ceiling was raising hob with high-priced stars, directors, writers, producers. At week's end the Treasury Department modified its rules so that movie colonists can earn more in 1942 than in 1941 provided their contracts so specify. But in 1943 no cinestar can earn more than $25,000 net-a figure many of them once got for a single picture. Plain & simple out: lower salaries...
...beetle-browed Irishman, Lieut. Colonel James Joseph Deery, 40, who talked himself (age 17) into the Army in World War I, graduated from West Point in 1925. The battalion, first Army anti-tank outfit, was organized only two weeks before last year's Louisiana maneuvers where it raised hob with Major General George Patton's famed tanks...
...friend, the nurse (Anna Lee); the rookie who gets killed (William Shirley); the oldtimer who gets grounded (Paul Kelly); the drunk who is given Another Chance (Edmund MacDonald); the show-off individualist (John Carroll) who learns, at last, what the fight is about, but not until he has played hob with the squadron's morale, materiel and lifeblood. This simple stereotype proves adequate to convey some of the true power and meaning of simple men doing a life-&-death job together, and something, too, of what they are doing...
...HEART IN HER THROAT - Ethel Lina White -Harper ($2). The dark secret of a long-vacant house in an English town terrorized by a homicidal maniac who plays hob with the nerves of a pretty young governess. She barely escapes death in leading police to the solution of a super-spooky yarn. The author of The Wheel Spins (filmed as The Lady Vanishes) turns in another master thriller...