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...William Leonard Pereira has become, at 37, something of a phenomenon in two different fields: architecture and the movies. In his Los Angeles office, he and a staff of eight are now designing: 1) a $7½ million Beverly Hills medical center; 2) a $1 million experimental theater for Paramount; 3) a studio for RKO; and 4) another hospital, two other theaters, two city-planning projects. All told, their volume of business tops $18 million. Last week, busy Mr. Pereira took on another job. He signed a five-year contract with RKO as a producer (for an undisclosed figure which...
...built 75 theaters for B. & K. in the next six years, found his way to Hollywood. Paramount was then planning a $15 million studio, and firms from all over the country were bidding on it. Brash young Bill, who had always been fascinated by big jobs-the more complicated the better -sauntered in and asked: "Do you know what you want?" Said Paramount...
Bill shook his head. He suggested that he be hired and they'd both find out what Paramount wanted. He got the job and applied his usual pattern to it: five parts research, four parts deduction, one part designing. The functional plans he produced made Paramount ecstatic, brought him offers from other studios as well...
Blue Skies (Paramount) has Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and a couple of dozen old & new Irving Berlin melodies. Millions of moviegoers, happily fighting their way to the box office, will ask nothing more of this $3 million Technicolored exhibition of Old Masters...
...Hcman Bondage--a new version with Paul Henreid and Eleanor Parker, opening tomorrow at the Paramount and Fenway...