Word: libelous
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Sirs: If I had the "ungovernable temper" which you ascribe to me, I would - * in your editor's ear as a quid pro quo for the way you libel me in your issue of Dec. 5; instead, I'll give you the facts to take the place of your misrepresentations and let you suffer the chagrin that the truth would have made a more romantic story than your fiction...
Call Her Savage (Fox) is a blatant and tasteless libel on the Amerind, notable only because its heroine is impersonated by Clara Bow, who retired from the cinema in 1931 after winning a suit against her secretary, Daisy De Boe. When, after retiring to a Nevada ranch and marrying Actor Rex Bell, Cinemactress Bow announced last summer that she would resume acting, producers were dubious. They felt that Miss De Boe's revelations about Miss Bow's private affairs might have injured her popularity. Having decided to take a chance, Fox did more. It chose as a vehicle...
...present regime (probably Harriman, Lehman, Cohu, Sherman Fairchild, one other); five will be Cord men (Cord, Manning, Vanderlip, two others). Five will be "independent prominent men mutually agreed upon. . . ." The deal had to be ratified by the December stockholders' meeting. Meanwhile the proxy fight was off. So was the libel suit. Hutton & Co. retracted...
Those statements, and many another, were part of a News petition asking that Publisher Bonfils be adjudged in contempt of court. Reason: He had refused to answer questions-before-trial in his own libel suit against the News...
Publisher Bonfils' $200,000 libel suit against the News, its editor and Publishers