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...embarrassingly. Announced the Beaverbrook Daily Express (circ. 4,000,000): Since the film companies were discriminating against two of the chain's papers, the Express would also refuse Hollywood movie ads. The moviemen hurriedly tried, but failed, to get nonmember companies to join the boycott (snorted Sir Alexander Korda: "Disgustingly silly"). Meanwhile the American companies were losing out on valuable advertising, promotion and good will. Even Beaverbrook's competitors rallied to his side. The News Chronicle, denouncing "an attempt at dictatorship," gave "its full support . . . for the whole conception of a free press is involved . . ." Said the Spectator...
...English-language propaganda newspaper edited in London and published in Russia. Later switched to the Foreign Office. Postwar jobs: feature editor (books, art, travel) of the London edition of Vogue; publicity woman at ?1,000 a year (a good salary for a woman in Britain) for Moviemaker Sir Alexander Korda...
Engagement Announced. Anthony Eden, 55, Britain's elegant Foreign Secretary, and Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, 32, Prime Minister Churchill's blonde, blue-eyed niece, Britain's "most beautiful debutante of 1938," a wartime Foreign Office worker, more recently employed in Film Producer Alexander Korda's office; in London...
...during the shooting because of the novel's anti-fox hunting message. In 1950, dissatisfied with the finished product, Producer David O. Selznick (who got the western-hemisphere rights to the picture in return for allowing wife Jennifer Jones to appear in it) sued London Films Producer Alexander Korda to enjoin release of the film overseas. A British law court decided against Selznick. Last year Selznick hired Director Rouben Mamoulian to reshoot almost a third of the picture in Hollywood for U.S. release...
...what kind of brushes artists used in the 17th century. As the domineering father in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, he became intolerably high & mighty around his own home. When he acted the murderer in Payment Deferred, he got so morose he nearly had a nervous breakdown. Says Korda of these soul struggles: "What he needs is not a director but a midwife...