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Last week's name trouble was by no means the first for a Hearst newsreel. In 1918, when his reel was called Hearst-Pathé, publisher Hearst was accused of being pro-German. Producer Hearst quit Pathé, changed the name of his reel to International Newsreel. It became Hearst Metrotone News whe MGM began to distribute it in 1930. Making it doubly hard for cinemaddicts to recognize Hearst Metrotone News in News of the Day currently is the fact that the reel, in addition to a new name, has also, for independent reasons, acquired a new announcer. When...
Come and Get It was budgeted by expansive Producer Goldwyn at $1,000,000. It cost 25% more. Part of the increase was caused by delay when Director Howard Hawks quit, after differences of opinion with Producer Goldwyn, to be replaced by William Wyler. Part was caused by Stunt Director Richard Rosson's discovery, when he went to the north woods to photograph lumberjacks riding falling trees or breaking up log jams, that these daring practices, familiar to preceding generations of lumberjacks, are scorned by contemporaries as unsophisticated generosity to their employers. He had to return to Hollywood...
...future, the Digest asked its readers: "Should the Democratic Party have quit in 1924 . . . instead of going on to the greatest triumph in its history? Should the University of Minnesota . . . give up [football] because it finally lost one game?" On the question of a change in polling methods, the Digest hedged: "We'll cross that bridge when we come...
Workers have not been the only beneficiaries of the pre-year plan. The rate of layoff and return have been reduced 25%. Fewer men have quit, fewer have been fired (layoffs do not count as discharges). For manufacturers this lower rate of labor turnover makes for more efficient operation, fewer accidents. Although the dealer now has to carry more cars on his floor during the winter, he, too, has benefited because his selling season is longer. The one snag is used cars. A new model may excite a prospect into an early purchase but second-hand cars are still bought...
...manufacturing division, then switched to Dodge. After the War he did a turn in a Manhattan bank, leaving to help Walter P. Chrysler with the metamorphosis of old Maxwell Motor into Chrysler Corp. For four years he was Chrysler's works manager. Then restless Mr. Mason quit the motor industry for the second time, entering Kelvinator at the top after a brief term as president for another refrigerator maker...