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...better first novel was Adria Locke Langley's A Lion Is in the Streets. It described the political and love life of a Huey Longish character who rose from pack peddler to total boss of Magnolia State. For A Lion, hungry M-G-M paid $250,000-the highest price on record for a novel's movie rights...
...apex - happens to be dead but is still alive enough to cause high-tension bickering between the girls at Judith's three o'clock dinner. Novelist Josephine Pinckney has water-colored a neat, pale comedy of manners which the Literary Guild has selected (October) and M-G-M has already bought...
...Attend to sundry pressing business mat ters. Among them: the sale to M-G-M of the movie rights to Cass Timberlane, which, together with The Book-of-the-Month Club donative and the magazine serial rights, would certainly boost the total take for his new novel well up toward the half-million-dollar figure. It would ease Novelist Lewis into that golden horseshoe where Kathleen Winsor (For ever Amber) currently queened it over U.S. letters...
Deceivingly billed as "M-G-M's Terrific Western Thriller," the new Beery vehicle (with square wheels) is really a wishy-washy comedy. Beefy Beory is just an easy-going tramp, very un-high waymanlike, who by very obvious means terrorizes a hunk of the Wild West by holding up stage coaches while posing as a respectable citizen...
...Girls and a Sailor (M-G-M). The girls are sister nightclub singers named Patsy and Jean Deyo. Noble Patsy (June Allyson) is as reliable as the polestar; spoiled Jean (Gloria De Haven) is as unreliable as a polecat. The sailor (Van Johnson) gives his name as plain John Brown, so it comes as no surprise to learn that he is really John Dyckman Brown III, a democratic multimillionaire. Before the sisters learn his secret he spends a good deal of his fortune sending orchids (signed "Somebody") to flirtatious Jean, much to Patsy's pain...