Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From such stuff, Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank makes a right fat slice of his film earnings; for doing it, Maggie Lockwood makes about ?30,000 a year-probably top money among British stars. Says she (with a blunt dig at stage-struck British stars who think they're slumming when they make pictures): "I am not one of those who is always dissatisfied with what she is doing...
Most British stars of Margaret Lockwood's magnitude are fixed in contracts to J. Arthur Rank. Last week Rank's biggest rival, Sir Alexander Korda, made a major bid for star-power. He signed a deal with Hollywood's biggest independent, David O. Selznick, to produce made-in-England pictures with made-in-Hollywood stars...
Selznick agreed to lend Korda his constellation of stars* in return for western hemisphere ownership of all pictures they might make in England. For the first time, Korda had something like the weight he needs to wrestle with Rank for the British box office. He promptly made plans to star Jennifer Jones in a Technicolor version of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Gregory Peck in a Technicolored Tale of Two Cities. Also on the schedule: Joseph Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands, Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, Jules...
...Brothers (Rank; Prestige) is one of those "stark" dramas about people very close to nature, in which strong men snarl at each other over a morsel of feminine flotsam (Patricia Roc), primitive passions are stripped to their G-strings, simple folk lap up their liquor as avidly as so many intellectuals, and the dialect is as hard to get through as a barbed-wire entanglement...
What that post-graduate study will be for most is in the field of arts and sciences, the survey shows. Business schools rank second in preference, with law and medical institutions following third and fourth. Engineering, design, education, journalism, and theology were the choice of about five percent of the student body each...