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...Garden to see the opening show of the 1941 professional tennis tour, promoted, like its three predecessors, by Wilson Sporting Goods Co. For headliners, the producers had chosen two ingenues: U. S. Singles Champion Alice Marble (straight from a week's appearance in vaudeville at Broadway's Loew's State Theatre) and Britain's No. 1 woman player, Mary Hardwick, stranded in the U. S. since the outbreak of World War II. But the performer most of the crowd had come to see was Bill Tilden, the Old Master, in his age-defying...
...country's 8,500,000 stockholders, extra and special dividends came almost too fast to count. Items: Allied Chemical, $2; American-Hawaiian Steamship, $1.75; Loew's Inc., $1; J. C. Penney, $2; U. S. Gypsum, $1. The New York Journal of Commerce estimated that they would bring the year's total to $3,565,000,000, up 13% from 1939, 27% from...
Meanwhile Trustbuster Thurman Arnold joined the fray, charged the producers with "harsh, onerous and unfair trade practices," indicted Hollywood's Big Eight (Loew's, Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO Radio, 20th-century Fox, Columbia, Universal, United Artists) under the antitrust laws. His announced objective was to divorce production and distribution, make the big producers ' give up their 2,400 theatres. Last spring he called the industry a dictatorship, insisted it must be reorganized. While independent exhibitors cheered, the Big Eight sent their lawyers to Washington...
Prancing into Manhattan's Loew's State theatre last fortnight went all that is left of big-time U. S. vaudeville. It was a troupe of seven energetic young cinemactors and actresses led by a columnist-Hearst's triple-threat Hollywood gossip dispenser, roly-poly Louella O. ("Lolly") Parsons. On this, her second cross-country junket, Lolly Parsons was again proving that a columnist's best business is his vaudeville, that vaudeville's best business is its columnists...
With his revival of Elmer, Brown hopes to give his career a shot in the arm. Once on a long-term contract with Warner Bros., Brown has of late years worked under a three-pictures-a-year contract with Independent Producer David Loew. Elmer suits Brown. He is himself a frustrated ballplayer who once did a training-camp turn for the Yankees. When he was with War ners, Brown organized and coached a semiprofessional studio ball team, had it specified in his contract that all players would be kept on the payroll as long as himself. A middle-aged Frank...