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...introduce young girls to polite society and eventually to the career of marriage was the debut held last week at the White House (see above). But very different in principle from such debuts are other debuts-a handful of which now take place every year-which provide a glittering preview of young women who are launching on a career somewhat like that of a cinema star, the career of Glamor Girl. Outstanding debut of last week in Manhattan was a party that had all the earmarks of a champagne christening of such a career...
...Beverly Hills, Carl ("Uncle Carl") Laemmle Sr., 71, onetime Chicago nickelodeon proprietor and retired head of Universal Pictures Corp., set about trying to interest U. S. can manufacturers in his patent on self-heating hot dogs on a royalty basis. Demonstrated to the press at a buffet preview last fortnight, the hot dogs are packed in cans invented by a German-Jewish refugee named Leo Katz, whom Mr. Laemmle picked up in Zurich last year. At one end of each can is a compartment containing chemicals. When the compartment is punctured, contact with air makes the chemicals hot enough...
Last week in Paris, 28 de Lesseps, including Ferdinand's two surviving sons, Mathieu and Paul, attended the family preview. When it was over, despite the implied reflection on themselves and their parentage, the de Lesseps were not shocked enough to bring suit, suggested a few minor changes. Relieved, Twentieth Century-Fox officials agreed to make them...
...author of the dialogue-which contains a discussion of Great Britain's defensive policy against aggressor nations-was Sir Robert Yan-sittart, Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Office. *After attending a San Diego preview of Submarine Patrol, Actor Greene last fortnight set off with his valet on a hunting trip in the Kaibab National Forest. When he failed to telephone his mother as he had promised, forest rangers, rail-road agents, and 100 CCC workers, started a search for Actor Greene. Twenty-four hours later, he was discovered at Williams, Ariz...
...film which, although budgeted for only $119,000 and made in 15 days, was unmistakably well above average A picture quality, RKO scarcely knew what to make of the situation. Finally the publicity department hit on a scheme. Instead of inviting critics in a body to a gala preview, RKO invited them in small groups to semiprivate showings, hoping thus to give each group the thrill of discovery. The scheme succeeded almost too well. By the time it was finally ready for release last week, A Man to Remember was one of the most pre-discovered pictures on record, appeared...