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...Hollywood. His younger brother David Oliver Selznick worked up to be Producer Ben Schulberg's assistant at Paramount, left Paramount to be production chief at RKO, married a daughter of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Louis B. Mayer, left RKO in 1932 to become an independent producer at MGM. In the last year, David Selznick has been itching to leave M-G-M to form a company of his own. Last month, when Twentieth Century Pictures quit United Artists to merge with Fox, Hollywood speculated on whether this would be the signal for Selznick to step into Twentieth Century...
...Lukas), Eve (Helen Vinson) and small Bill (David Jack Holt). Eve runs off with a worthless scion. Robert becomes attached to his devoted secretary (Madge Evans). Small Bill, almost handed over to his unscrupulous mother by a deluded judge, eventually stays with his father. Pleasantly played and decorated with MGM's best office, home and country house effects, all this manages to seem a little less banal than it sounds...
...Manhattan coach; in New City, N. Y. last month. Miss Talley's first marriage, to Pianist Michael Raucheisen, also her coach, was annulled in 1933. Last week she and her husband were on their way to California, where she has a five-year cinema contract with MGM...
...Scandals, experts estimate that Dancer Powell covers four miles in the course of her routine. She has brown hair, blue eyes, weighs 117 Ib. Her next picture: Broadway Melody of 1935 (MGM...
...California Legislature was considering a 35% income tax that would affect all cinema studios. President Joseph M. Schenck of United Artists, accompanied by wily little Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal, real estate man, boarded a Manhattan plane for Miami. In Miami, Producer Schenck, who said he was also acting for MGM's Louis B. Mayer, proposed that Florida- which recently ratified an amendment exempting cinema companies from taxes for 15 years-should also build $10,000,000 worth of cinema studios by popular subscription, rent them to cinema companies for $250,000 a year. Producer Schenck explained his extraordinary plan...