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...make a footloose Yale boy stay home and marry a friend of theirs instead of taking an extended junket to Russia after college. As early as 1927 Eleanor Golden and Eloise Barrangon presented the first version of this romance to a sympathetic audience of classmates at Northampton. Producer Jed Harris got the play three years later, handed it over to his first-string playwright for doctoring five years after that. According to Miss Barrangon, Mr. Barry, the creator of such sophisticated dramas as Paris Bound and The Animal Kingdom, "added a great deal to building up the men characters...
Every Saturday Night (Twentieth Century-Fox) bathes its audience in an atmosphere of homey sweetness which should make the picture a success at any neighborhood playhouse. Mr. Evers (Jed Prouty) is the father of a "typical American family." He has a spry old mother (Florence Roberts) whose two loves are slang and coffee, a complacent wife (Spring Byington), five children who exemplify all the traditionally wholesome traits of youth. Bonnie (June Lang) is the 18-year-old apple of her father's eye except that she goes around with Clark Newall (Thomas Beck), spoiled son of the idle rich...
...tale told by Playwright Harris, sister of Producer Jed Harris, and her collaborator concerns an economist who is misunderstood by his actress wife but profoundly appreciated by the New Deal and a female book reviewer of The New Republic. All hands agree to a collusive divorce, necessitating the employment of a professional corespondent, an honest girl from Tenth Avenue (Miss Conklin). The drama then resolves itself into the following questions: Will Miss Conklin put on the pink pajamas? If so, will she get into bed with Actor James Rennie? If so, will she spend the night? If so, will...
First notice of this affair occurred when Producer Jed Harris abruptly terminated the run of Coquette, announced that his star was going to have a baby. Several weeks later through Actors' Equity the cast filed $3,050 in claims against Mr. Harris for two weeks' pay in lieu of notice that the show was closing. Mr. Harris took refuge behind the "Act of God" clause in his contracts and the matter was finally adjudicated by a board of arbitration which decided against the producer...
That theft should be punished by a state, Mr. Beck heartily agreed, but that a theft could become a Federal crime because the object stolen had been in possession of a Federal licensee, he vigorously denied. Thereupon Fred Hastings, Jed Earner and Bale No. 407784 were forgotten. For the question of the Federal Government's licensing powers-on which rest AAA's marketing agreements, the Potato Control Act and many another New Deal project-had been raised. The debate was taken out of the hands of Mr. Beck and his opponent, Assistant Attorney General Joseph B. Keenan...