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Jezebel (by Owen Davis; produced by Guthrie McClintic). When in 1853 Miss Julie Kendrick (Miriam Hopkins) returns to her Twin Oaks plantation in Louisiana, after three years gallivanting in Europe, her supreme purpose is to wed her childhood sweetheart. Cousin Preston Kendrick (Reed Brown Jr.). Humiliated when she finds that, tired of waiting, he has already married a demure Yankee girl, Miss Julie behaves without regard for decency or decorum. She inveigles a young hot-head named Buck Buckner into picking a quarrel with Preston, hoping that they will duel and that Preston will be pinked. Instead, Preston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Jan. 1, 1934 | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...Guthrie McClintic is waiting until Tallulah Bankhead gets well to produce Owen Davis' Jezebel, a play about old New Orleans. George White will have a new Scandals, Lew Leslie a new Blackbirds. Walter Hampden is rehearsing Ruy Bias. Max Gordon is making ready Gowns by Roberta, with music & libretto by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. The Brothers Shubert, scrambling out of bankruptcy, have already presented Joe Cook to gasping audiences, will put on a Follies with Fanny Brice. In collaboration with Jed Harris the Shuberts will produce The Green Bay Tree, a play about sexual abnormality calculated to shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Broadway Boy | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

...expand, bought or built blast furnaces, bar, wire, tube, plate mills; went to Mesabi for ore. Mellon provided customers for Union Steel: he started New York Shipbuilding Co. (see p. 41) at Camden and Standard Steel Car. He backed two young men and took a 60% interest in McClintic-Marshall Construction Co. Meantime U. S. Steel had been formed. When Union Steel announced plans for building a rail mill and a new railroad to Pittsburgh, U. S. Steel came around to bargain, bought Union Steel at a huge profit to Mellon and Frick. While all this was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fortune Making | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

...Oklahoma's Representative James V, McClintic said he was fishing off Solomons Island in Chesapeake Bay when an 18-ft. fish yanked him into the water. Three friends, including Major Alfred Vernon Dalrymple, National Prohibition Director, hauled him back into the boat. The fish yanked him overboard again. His friends hauled him back. The fish took the boat in tow, hauled it 15 mi. in two and one-half hours, finally bit the line in two, escaped. The party agreed that the fish "looked like a sturgeon, had a mouth like a catfish, leaped like a tarpon, pulled like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 7, 1933 | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

...than the mechanical competence which Hollywood demands of subsidiary performers. Son of Frank Jerome Tone, president of Carborundum Co., Franchot Tone went to Hill School and Cornell, where he got a Phi Beta Kappa key and ran the Dramatic Club. He played in stock for a year before Guthrie McClintic put him in the Age of Innocence, with Katharine Cornell. Last winter, Hollywood gossipmongers observed him escorting Joan Crawford, whom he will play opposite in his next picture, Dancing Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 10, 1933 | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

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