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Fortnight ago Sonja arrived in Manhattan, squired by her watchful father, whose fur business seldom receives his attention, and her morose, dour-faced mother. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered her screen tests, two other companies put in bids. When M-G-M demanded that she skate in her pictures, thus losing her amateur status, she hesitated. Then her sound business sense got the better of her. She signed for the tour. Signed with her was 19 year-old British Jack Dunn, who finished fifth at Garmisch-Partenkirchen last month, is now her most persistent companion...
...ghost of Bugle Ann which ran the woods the night of his return. So nearly a scenario was Kantor's novel that Samuel Hoffenstein and Harvey Gates could have written most of their adaptation with a pair of shears and a paste-pot. Yet no company but M-G-M bid for the book. It is as far from conventional screen material as a good fox-night from the sick air of a soundstage. Director Richard Thorpe has kept a newsreel vitality in his telling of the tale, much of which was made in Missouri, almost...
...M-G-M actresses have benefited by Myrna Loy's salary strike last summer. Luise Rainer got Miss Loy's part in Escapade. That picture, in which William Powell starred, encouraged the studio to try the trick again in Rendezvous. Before that, Rosalind Russell, 28, had appeared in eight minor roles, impressed critics most favorably in Forsaking All Others...
...become an actress with minor parts in European stock companies. When she returned to the U. S., she toured for nine months with a tent show before taking a small Broadway part in The Second Man. A one-night Hollywood performance in No More Ladies led to an M-G-M contract. She is a collector of first editions of children's books, reasonably good at fashionable sports and lives in the smallest house (living room, bedroom, bath) in Beverly Hills. Afflicted by chronic insomnia and aware that she will not be able to sleep until dawn...
Jack Benny is currently the world's highest-paid entertainer. He receives approximately $7,500 a week for his Jello broadcasts, $100,000 from M-G-M for each of his pictures. Last year NBC gave him a gold medal as No. 1 star of the air. This year his real popularity (as well as the ludicrous exaggerations of radio publicists) is exemplified by the claim that his following...