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...journey into average British boyhood. In the next five years, the sales of three more boysome novels made Pip into a mere squeak. Author Hay gave up teaching for writing. His most successful novels: A Knight on Wheels, A Man's Man, A Safety Match. He hit the jackpot again with Britain's popular melofarce, Tilly of Bloomsbury...
Best bit: C. Aubrey Smith, as a Mayfair clergyman, cheerfully commenting on the death of a rich old lady who has left him the jackpot: "Very sad, very...
Book-of-the-Month is the biggest jackpot an author and his publisher can hit (an average of $75,000 to split between them, plus larger sales in bookstores). Book-of-the-Month Club authors include Pearl Buck, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Gather...
...requires capable acting right down the line, and it gets it. Hollywood's top comedienne, Jean Arthur, and Ronald Coleman both turn in standout performances. And Cary Grant plays his usual self in his usual role in a better than usual way. The producers didn't quite hit the jackpot, but they'll get plenty of nickels back from "The Talk of the Town...
Molly hit the jackpot the first month she went lovelorning. A needling letter from an "Annoyed Cadet" at the U.S. Army Air Forces' nearby Lowry Field complained that Denver girls failed to draw the proper line between the socially eligible cadets and ordinary foot soldiers. The News got more than 200 letters within 24 hours from Lowry's personnel. Everybody read Molly Mayfield...