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Chief of the Imperial General Staff Prince Kotohito Kanin, who had been designated "Honorable Girdle Parent" (equivalent of godfather), presented the girdle, a silk belt twelve feet long. Surrounded by the Empress and her court ladies, elaborately dressed in ancient, figured costumes, the Emperor saw Grand Master of Rituals of the Imperial Household Prince Kimitern Sanjo place the belt before the Imperial shrine and inform the Imperial ancestors of the coming event. Then, with the assistance of her ladies, it was wrapped around the plump little Empress. The child, seventh conceived by the Empress, is expected in mid-February...
...Great Man Votes he was given $200,000, John Barrymore and Peter Holden. A superproduction in comparison with Kanin's earlier efforts, it is still a quickie according to normal Hollywood standards. Director Kanin, in his accustomed style, makes capital of its entertainment assets far beyond its cost...
...Great Man Votes (RKO Radio). Latest and youngest addition to the long roster of Hollywood "geniuses" is Director Garson Kanin, whose specialty is making silk purses out of sows' ears. A onetime Broadway actor and assistant to Broadway Producer George Abbott, Director Kanin started his cinema career as an odd-job man for Sam Goldwyn in 1937, when he was 24. Last year RKO somewhat skeptically allowed him to direct a B-picture called A Man to Remember, which was equipped with a no-star cast and budgeted for a mere $119,000. Kanin turned it into an excellent...
...that good pictures cost more than bad ones is so firmly rooted in the Hollywood subconscious that when a producer contrives to make a cheap picture which is also good, it occasions an almost panic confusion. Thus when, in A Man to Remember, Producer Robert Sisk and Director Garson Kanin turned out a film which, although budgeted for only $119,000 and made in 15 days, was unmistakably well above average A picture quality, RKO scarcely knew what to make of the situation. Finally the publicity department hit on a scheme. Instead of inviting critics in a body...
...resigned, rocking Saito's boat for the sixth time. Meanwhile a faction of young army officers was rumored busy building up Hayashi's resignation into a reason why Premier Saito's entire cabinet should resign. When Hayashi got wind of that, his temper changed. Prince Kanin spoke, against the resignation. With great relief Hayashi withdrew his resignation...