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ORPHEUM: GONE WITH THE WIND is back; and Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh's mighty saga of the Ole South is to be seen at popular prices. A Civil War Centennial spectacular. Evenings...
...most awesomely popular novel ever written (total sales to date: 10 million copies), G.W.T.W. was produced by David Selznick for a sum ($3,900,000) that seemed tremendous by the production standards of 1939. He employed 13 scriptwriters, eight directors, four major stars (Gable, Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Vivien Leigh). He took six months to shoot the picture, which ran 3 hrs. 45 min., won ten Academy Awards and made $7,000,000 the first year it was released. In the 22 years since 1939, G.W.T.W. has been showing continuously somewhere in the world. It lasted four years in London...
What's more, G.W.T.W. has a grand, simpleminded, 19th century story to tell and a gallery of splendid theatrical caricatures to display. Gable never in later movies topped his performance as Rhett Butler, the man of iron with a heart of caramel. Vivien Leigh, though she seldom shows the tigerish vitality that Author Mitchell wrote into her Scarlett O'Hara, nevertheless makes a fascinating, green-eyed bitch-kitty. And Hattie McDaniel, as Scarlett's hammy old mammy, just about waddles off with the show...
...looks like Castro's back in town," reflected one of the officer's colleagues who met the counter-revolutionaries when they invaded the Square. A plea from Leigh B. Trevor '56 in front of President Pusey's home, after the early "Latin al, Pusey no" phase had fizzled, forced the ensuing march down Mass. Ave. "What I said in effect was that this kind of behavior is beneath the dignity of the Harvard student," Trevor reminisced after his triumph. Nine years ago, Trevor participated in the now legendary Pogofor-President-riot. "Then I was on your side...
...Music Corp. had the new labor force organized. Admen could buy high-test jingles written by the firm's herd of known and unknown songwriters. Some of the knowns: Adler, Harold Rome (Destry Rides Again), Charles Strouse and Lee Adams (Bye Bye Birdie), and Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh (Wildcat). Authorship is not revealed until the tune has been sold. "It's embarrassing," explained the firm's vice president, Stuart Ostrow, "for an important writer to go to bat for Pepsodent and be turned down." Average price, not including sizable royalties...