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Hungry for information about important appointments, the 22 newshawks covering President-elect Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga. last week got their first definite preview of the next administration. After March 4, they were told, the White House secretariat would be composed of three onetime reporters-Col. Louis McHenry Howe, Stephen T. Early and Marvin Hunter McIntyre. The next President is determined to get a better "press" than his predecessor. White House secretaries, buffers between the President and the public, have the power to set an administration's tone with the Washington correspondents, who largely help make or break their...
...such carnival anecdotes. The spieler blackmails a producer (Frank Morgan), puts a lion in the cooch dancer's hotel room. Ballyhooed into being a musical comedy star, she goes back to cooch dancing when the spieler publicizes another carnival wench in connection with a nudist colony. Possibly because preview audiences were so enthusiastic about The Half Naked Truth, RKO last fortnight ceased bickering with Cinemactor Tracy about his salary, which was withheld when he frequently failed to appear on the set. Terms of the agreement: $1,750, half of the salary due Cinemactor Tracy to be paid immediately, half...
...generous extra girl (Joan Blondell) tries to befriend him but in so doing adds the last straw to Merton's misery. She gets him a job with a director who makes a burlesque "western" with Merton as the hero. He plays his role in earnest. At the preview of the picture he is so broken by the knowledge that he has performed as a buffoon that he sets off home. The extra girl tries hard to comfort him and seems to be succeeding...
...little token of my esteem and . . . it's guaranteed." Director William Beaudine had fine dialog to work with and he put in a few sharp touches of his own. The gross face of an anonymous cinemaddict who is almost strangled by his amusement at the preview of Merton's picture, underscores the gesture of shame with which Merton rolls up his cowboy hat, hides it under his coat...
...Sirovich's first dramatic effort, Schemers, was produced in September, 1924. It was a drama in three acts, a prologue and epilogue, designed to ridicule the antics of four theatre critics?"Alexander Gale." "Alan Olcott," "Perry Ammond," "A. Wood Brown''?who, asked to sit through a play's preview, ending by thoroughly damning it. There was something prophetic about Schemers. It retired after 16 performances...