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...most sociable guy in the business, he is also the most hardboiled. He frequently treats producers rough. But he plays them smart. He may explode working for explosive Jed Harris, but he is a gent when working for gentlemanly Arthur Hopkins. He may write reams of copy about a play for the press, but to its producer he never offers a word of unsolicited advice. And the producer-the man who pays him-comes first, last & always with him. Composer Dick Rodgers once asked him: "Is it a secret that I am writing the music for this show?" Retorted Maney...
...took more than three months for shooting, built 80 sets (average for a feature is 40), replaced the 1913 custard pie with a new-style, squshier, stickier, whipped-cream pie, summoned oldtime Pie-slinger Buster Keaton to hurl 56 of them; called in Mack Sennett, Chester Conklin, Jed Prouty, many another old-timer to impersonate themselves, resurrected Keystone Cops* and Bathing Beauties, the bewitchingly crossed eyes of Bartender Ben Turpin. Many a fan sat twice through the heartthrob antics of 1939 to see the side-splitting antics...
...adopted, the other, Mary, whose birth in 1950 cost Producer Jed Harris two weeks' pay for the rest of the cast of Coquette when Mother MacArthur's confinement closed the show. Unsuccessful defense by Mr. Harris: that Mary's birth was "an act of God." † Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt last fortnight "adopted" a Spanish Civil War orphan, Lorenzo Murias, 12, through an organization called the Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain, by which refugee children are kept in France at a cost to U. S. foster parents of $9 per month...
...Terror of Tiny Town (Jed Buell). "If this economy drive keeps on, we'll end up using midgets for actors." To hefty, thrifty Movie Producer Jed Buell this crack of a subordinate was intended as a reproof. Instead it gave him an idea. Soon he was collecting all the midgets he could reach through agencies, advertisements, radio broadcasts ("big salaries for little people"). They drifted in by twos and threes. From Hawaii came a troupe of 14. At length he had 60 of them, averaging three-feet-eight in height, about 70 Ibs., ranging in age from...
Manhattan's Theatre Arts Committee, composed of such Broadwayites as Robert Benchley, Jed Harris, Lillian Hellman, Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles, is not friendly to fascism. On three fronts- theatre, cinema, radio-it has been making anti-fascist lunges for all it is worth. The committee's latest enterprise is TAC, a midnight cabaret presented on Mondays at Manhattan's weatherbeaten Chez Firehouse. In a free-&-easy atmosphere of cigarets and drinks, audiences can watch a revue modeled after Pins and Needles and possessing much of its muscular merit...