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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty Acres is the back lot of Selznick Studios in Culver City. Until the night of Dec. 11, 1938 it was cluttered with old sets accumulated during 20 years of movie making. These sets were laboriously filled with waste and other inflammable materials, well soaked with kerosene. As darkness fell, the $26,000 bonfire roared sky-high while seven Technicolor cameras ground away. The first scenes of Gone With the Wind had been shot. A flat representing the Atlanta warehouse district was constructed in front of the old sets. In the light of the dying flames Myron Selznick, Hollywood...
...World-Telegram. It was a farewell to dapper little Roy Howard, who had been his boss for almost twelve years. Said Broun, polite as always, though he dictated from his bed in a Manhattan hotel, where he lay ill with grippe: "There were fights, frenzies, some praise and a lot of dough, and a good deal of fun in my relationship with Roy." Said Roy Howard, also polite, in a note appended to Broun's column: "Heywood was occasionally a bit of a headache. But like many another headache, he was worth the price...
...Plata Estuary. Before leaving, she had transferred many of her men to the Nazi cargo steamer, Tacoma. "The commander," Jimmy hazarded, "may try to scuttle the ship about five miles out." He was covering, he said, from a dock, in the midst of a crowd. "They are doing a lot of talking," he shouted. NBC cut him off the network...
...Metairie with a photographer went Meigs Frost. They crawled through weeds and bushes on a neighboring lot, snapped pictures of a university truck delivering millwork. The house was for a close friend of Governor Richard Webster Leche. Two days later, after poring over deeds and checking facts, the States broke Reporter Frost's front-page story. Next day the Times-Picayune followed suit. Fortnight later, Governor Leche resigned, and his Lieutenant Governor, Huey's brother Earl Long, took his place...
Santa, how about a new deal for the college generation? A lot of those toys are too damn good to be wasted on infants who don't know how to enjoy them properly. Frankly, Vag could use an electric train this Christmas. His roommates wouldn't laugh. They're a bit sheepish on the subject--but Vag bets they'd play too. So, could you spare one train--just a little one? Into the ashcan with false sophistication! Vag is going to hang a hopeful stocking...