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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cured by a single sellout, nor even by a dozen on end. It is a chronic affliction, and as intractable as gout, the liquor habit, or following the horses. The American pinks have had it for a long time and they will carry it to the grave, and even let us hope, beyond...
Personally I am not enthusiastic about an education which is administered by a force pump. I do not believe that, by and large, students of science, let us say, obtain much of permanent value when they are compelled (note, I say "compelled") to take a course in "general literature" or "universal history" or a "survey of western art since 1200"; and I am sure that those of a literary or artistic bent are not educated by being forced to take freshman chemistry or physics...
...best of all. Courses for the unwilling are necessarily perfunctory, and a single course in an unrelated subject often fails to be assimilated. If we could agree on what should constitute a liberal education for every stu- dent who was graduated from Harvard and if we could test it, let us say, by a general examination, that would be quite a different matter...
...small fortune on a picture with Spencer Tracy that had to be junked, M.G.M. handed Hedy and Screenwriter Ben Hecht over to Producer Sam Zimbalist, fresh from Tarzan Finds A Son. Practical Mr. Zimbalist, correctly figuring that audiences would like a picture as much like Algiers as possible, let the camera eye ogle Lamarr's uncanny physical charms, duplicated Producer Wanger's feat of making the Lamarr torpidity seem exotic. Somewhat bowled over himself, Producer Zimbalist observed: "Hedy is just a nice girl, not at all vain, and a hard worker. She has a natural allure. ... If anything...
Then Cinemactress West suggested as a likely convert to MRA her coming costar, raffish W. C. Fields. "Give it to him in a bottle and he'll go for it," she told Dr. Buchman, promised, "If you reform Bill I'll let him win me in our next picture." But raucous, red-nosed Bill Fields proved recalcitrant. Said he: "I'll take anything in a bottle. But I don't need re-armament...