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Chief rivals are Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. According to Hollywood gossips, they are infiltrating each other's lots with company spies disguised as extras. Following standard practice, Paramount has already surmounted the first production hurdle: picking and discarding various titles. The chosen one: Top Secret. It is no top secret that the picture will be masterminded by cinema wizard Hal Wallis (Casablanca, Love Letters), whose signature is pace and palaver. Estimated cost...
Concierges and shopkeepers asked their intellectual betters what Existentialism means (few can answer, but many try). In the overcrowded metro a working man has been heard to swear at a neighbor who shoved him: "Species of an existentialist!" At one of Prophet Sartre's recent lectures, an overflow mob of 2,000 was turned away, a small riot occurred, and women swooned...
...Elizabeth Metzger Howard, 45, wife of a British-born mining engineer. Her novel Before the Sun Goes Down, a story of a Pennsylvania town in the 1880s, will be published early next year-as the winner of both the $20,000 Doubleday, Doran Novel Contest and the $125,000 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Annual Novel Award. The $145,000 is not the end of Mrs. Howard's windfall. M.G.M. will pay her up to $50,000 more if her book becomes a best-seller -and may offer her a writing contract to boot...
...York on a two day furlough, the All-American boy is naturally awed by escalators and sky-scrapers and such-like. When he meets an equally unspoiled and sympathetic soul (Judy Garland, who has also grown up) he quite naturally falls in love with her--or at least Metro makes it seem natural...
...parting thought for Joe Neil, Elgin skyscraper, who spent a pleasurable Sunday in the company of a Metro ballet star. Well, kiddies, meet you at midterms...