Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company took over all assets and contracts of David 0. Selznick Productions, announced it had no stock to sell the public. It will produce, on United Artists' lot where Pioneer Pictures will also function, some half dozen films a year at an average of $500,000 each. First on the list is Little Lord Fauntleroy, with Freddie Bartholomew,* starting Nov. 15, to be followed by an effort in Technicolor. Producer Selznick plans to bring Author Somerset Maugham to Hollywood. Directors George Cukor and John Cromwell, Actor Ronald Colman are now under contract...
Lichtman. The ups-and-downs of United Artists this year started in June when Darryl Zanuck's Twentieth Century Pictures left the lot to merge with Fox, taking United Artists' President Joe Schenck with it. To replace Schenck, United Artists partners-Pickford, Fairbanks, Chaplin, Sam Goldwyn-chose Al Lichtman, for eight years the sales manager who was generally considered responsible for United Artists' brilliantly run distribution. With Lichtman as president. United Artists speedily refilled its producing plant with the Selznick company, a new Mary Pickford-Jesse Lasky partnership and Alexander Korda's London Films, whose pictures...
...perhaps all these billion dollar gestures of Mr. Roosevelt, plus the incredibly honest and sincere qualities of his tools, will get him more votes still. Men will accept his gifts with gratitude, admit his sincerity, and recognize that without all this government help starvation and misery would be their lot...
...casual judgment this year's model should be the best of the lot. The 1934 Crusaders had one or two notable weaknesses that cropped up at the most important times, but most of those troubles seem to be absent this year. For instance thanks in part to Adam Walsh's knowledge of the Notre Dame type of play, Harvard was able to do an unexpectedly good job of stopping the Purple's ground attack a year ago. Then, of course, a certain Jim Hobin started passing...
...long as immature youngsters with a flare for the sensational are encouraged to report talks on technical subjects, you will always run the danger of printing a lot of fiction, but more serious sins might be avoided if those on your staff who edit copy and write headlines would assume tentatively that professors in the university are neither fools nor knaves and certain from portraying them as such without first getting from them either conscious or unconscious continuation. Thomas Reed Powell