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...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Green Years (TIME, April 15) did so well in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall-its third-week gross of $147,000 was second only to The Bells of St. Mary's in Music Hall history-that Metro planned a "cultural" (special showings for church and civic leaders) buildup, Gone With the Wind type of distribution...
...week of unparalleled tributes. From Toledo came flattering news: somebody was going around representing himself as Petrillo. In Hollywood, movie magnates cheerfully upped his studio musicians' pay by 33% (previous annual wage: $5,200), agreed to a 44% increase in the number of regularly employed musicians. From Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Nicholas Schenck came the most gracious accolade of all: "We had a very lovely and friendly three weeks of negotiation...
Blonde, petite, crinkly-eyed June Allyson, 22, has come up fast since she first arrived in Hollywood in September 1942. Probably Metro's most promising ingenue, she is the opposite of the typical young screen sparkler, looks and acts more like a well-adjusted schoolgirl from Pelham, N.Y.-which she is. Retiring, unflighty, even ungregarious, she lives quietly with her husband, reformed Crooner Dick Powell, 41, in a two-bedroom country house in the Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood. She cooks, takes art lessons, likes to read mystery stories, rarely makes the Hollywood nightclubs...
...Metro, too, is prepared to shoot the works on its more ominously titled The Beginning or the End. Cast for the leads: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy. Producer: heavy, slow-talking Sam Marx,* who, in Hollywood's inscrutable ways, qualified for his present assignment by patiently directing a collie dog through Lassie Come Home and Son of Lassie...
...neither Paramount nor Metro professes much alarm at this crude trespass. Paramount confidently says that Hal Wallis has the "official" story of the atom bomb locked safely in his desk. Says Metro: "SammyMarx has the atom sewed up tight...