Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capital gain. The moviemaker, which has still to raise the cash for the project, has started to dicker with at least five "interested" insurance companies, and one is considering putting up $50 million. Fox's lot-half of which it bought from oldtime Film Cowboys Tom Mix and Buck Jones, who used it to stable their horses-is the largest piece of underdeveloped real estate in a city that is rapidly running out of space. Quietly for the past year, Fox has been drawing up plans to exploit the plot. Architect Welton Becket's models call...
Women as a rule make devoted church workers, but they should not be entrusted with inventing their own churches. No exception is Lady Emily Lutyens, who was one of the muddled Marthas of the Theosophical Society, a cult that hoped to mix the occult traditions of Buddhism. Christianity, and the other great religions, and actually succeeded only in unloosing a great Ganges tidal bore of flumduddery and jiggerypook on the superstitious suburbs of the West. Author Lutyens' first book, A Blessed Girl (1954), evoked a pleasant nostalgia for a childhood spent as a member of an aristocratic family...
...Mix for the Prince. Thanks to such searchers as Twentieth Century's Mel Stuart and James McDonough, TV shows glimpses of history that might languish forever unseen. Some of the rare footage comes from wartime enemy-made films, e.g., Japan's own record of the attack on Pearl Harbor. From a onetime lady-in-waiting at the Czarist court, whom he found in New Jersey, Stuart once got 8,000 precious feet of royal family life, including the Czar swimming in the buff. Sometimes unusual film gets scrapped. Example: a shot of Charlie Chaplin doing a little...
...Johnny Allen, 47, a Manhattan film technician who rides his hobby fervidly. Allen keeps in touch with 260 collectors around the world (184 in the U.S.), says: "A collector will never divulge the names of other collectors." Many are specialists, collecting only railroad shots, Ernst Lubitsch film or Tom Mix reels. Among themselves, they swap film, rarely sell it. "When we need something," says Searcher McDonough, "we send out word to a couple of key people in this underground." The networks pay $2.50 a foot for collectors' film, though to get a sequence of a debutante describing her dance...
...been forced to increase his tips (from 14? to 35?, and so on): "As the richest man in the U.S. [if] you give a man a shilling [14?], he'll talk about it for the rest of his life!" Explaining why oil and love don't mix, Getty, a veteran of five marriages, sourly aphorized: "A woman resents a man dedicated to his business. She, in fact, resents anything dedicated to anything but herself...