Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was, for example, one incomprehensible deal involving what he called "one-half interest in the down payment on the option of $100,000." Then he mentioned an outfit called the Rialb Corp. "What is that?" asked Fulbright. "That," said Rosenbaum pleasantly, "is Blair spelled backwards." Fulbright, with a gesture that got to be common during the week, shut off the witness and exclaimed: "It's too complicated for us ... It's beyond my comprehension...
...Payment on Demand (Skirball & Manning; RKO Radio) is the story of a marriage and a divorce. Almost up to the time it opened last week in Manhattan, its producers were undecided whether it should also be the story of a reconciliation. After testing the picture before preview audiences, they have experimented with four different endings...
Though such indecision is often a dangerous symptom, Payment on Demand is good enough for moviegoers to care how it ends. The plot is not far removed from soap opera, but thanks to painstaking treatment and acting, it is a comfortable distance. Back again at the old tricks she discarded for All About Eve, Bette Davis plays a hateful woman as well as ever...
...anti-smuggling laws and several other statutes provide for payment to informers. This, however, is very different from the British law under which the informer himself brings suit, even in cases where the police...
Arabs to Indians. Like the early Hollywood pioneers, the pencil-mustached producer entered moviemaking from theater operation. He says he owned his first theater at the age of 14, got the down payment ($800) by starting a newspaper at Alameda (Calif.) High School and selling ads. During the war he turned garages and stores into movie houses to cash in on the heavy business around shipyards. His booming theaters began using up so many pictures that he went into distribution, then into production, to meet the demand...