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...leading department stores last week leaped at the chance to make a big business out of a little woman. The little woman is Irene Gibbons, whose credit line ("Costume supervision by Irene") has made her name and work familiar to millions of cinemaddicts as executive designer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios...
...know who he was, or why. When the picture was finished, the little man approached Hedda and thanked her handsomely for all she had done for the show. "That's very nice," said Hedda, in her rather imperial way, "but who are you?" "I'm Louis Mayer. I'm the producer, and this is my first picture. And," he added respectfully, "I know everything that's gone...
Fustest with the Mostest. Hedda spent most of the rest of her movie career in Hollywood, working for Louis B. Mayer. She was the screen's first best-dressed woman, and for years its official sophisticated society dame. In those years, without even trying, she salted down an incredible knowledge of Hollywood's strange ways & means. She can tell off-the-record stories that make Suetonius look like a cub from the Christian Science Monitor. She even knew what the inside of Garbo's dressing room looked like ("the black hole of Calcutta"). Studio publicity men, hard...
Even outside the conference hall, there was no companionship between the factions, and no gaiety. Most delegates had modest accommodations in second-rate hotels (France's Daniel Mayer shared his room with four colleagues). Only the Rumanian delegate, Serban Voina, had a room in Zurich's best hotel, the lovely, luxurious Baur-au-Lac, whose terraces descend gently to Lake Zurich. Nevertheless, Zurich looked like another Eden to the delegates from poor, hungry countries. Said France's Salomon Grumback: "This city is so clean, you almost become dizzy...
Lowell: Stroke, Prescott; 7, Roll; 6, Erskine; 5, Morse; 4, Winslow; 3, Potter; 2, Hellor; bow, Watson; cox, Allen. Kirkland: Stroke, Shoemaker; 7, Murphy; 6, Cadoret; 5, Bingham; 4, Callahan; 3, Palmer; 2, Brooks; bow, W. Lowe; cox, Harris. Leverett: Stroke, Hopewell; 7, McKearney; 6, Friedman; 5, Mayer; 4, Baker; 3, Clark; 2, Lacy; bow, Haynes; cox, Elliot...