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...lineups in the games yesterday: Leverett: le, Duble; lt, Baker, Hezlett; lg, Frank, Connolly; c, Grant, Straus; rg, Max, Carlisle; rt, Thorn, Neville; re, Oburchay; backs, Hurley, Mayer, Snyder, Heller, Cameron, Bentley, Warren...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's President Nick Schenck, who had joyfully announced that company profits for the first ten months of this fiscal year were a whopping $12,579,245, recently finished the third of a series of two-week conclaves on the problem. Out from New York to confer with production heads went President Spyros Skouras of 20th Century, whose six-month divvy of $11,449,449 was 111% higher than last year...
Leverett: re, Butler; rt, Thorn; rg, Max, Carlisle; c, Grant, Strauss; lg, Frank, Connelly; lt, Baker, Hazlitt; le, Duble; backs, Mayer, Schneider, Staples, Hurley, Heller, Bentley...
Then came the big break. Loss persuaded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to make a $1 million horse opera called Gallant Bess in Cinecolor. Due for release this week, M-G-M expects it to be the "sleeper" (surprise hit) of the year. Result: Cinecolor is now booked solid until July 1947, expects to make its first profit this year, about $200,000 net. By the end of next year, Cinecolor expects to be printing 100 million feet of film a year, about half Technicolor's normal production. It also expects to turn out three-color films, with a new simplified...
...associates, the left wing of the French Socialist Party rebelled against Léon Blum's moderate, anti-Communist leadership. By a vote of 2,964-to-1,363 (with 145 abstentions), the annual Party Congress rejected the Executive Bureau's activities report. General Secretary Daniel Mayer (a moderate) promptly resigned. Léon Blum pleaded with the rebels ("Participation of Communists in a government without any doubt serves the interests of Russia. It is not for us to enter into a government so that we could plant there little pockets of dynamite"). But Blum himself was rebuffed...