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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loew's State and Orpeheum is still showing "Toy Wife," with Louise Rainer, Melvyn Douglas and Robert Young. Essentially modern actors, they have difficulty in this revival of the Victorian Frou Frou," and the result is not happy...
With the U. S. supplying these much-needed reconnaissance and training ships, new Secretary of State for Air Sir Kingsley Wood intends to keep Britain's factories rolling out bombers and fighting planes. Both U. S. contracts are a result of investigations by Britain's air mission, which returned to England fortnight ago after scouting production facilities of U. S. and Canadian concerns. No Canadian contracts were let last week but the Ministry admitted that a move to aid Canadian aircraft production, in line with the mother country's longview program to make the Dominions self-sufficient...
Screen writers have been trying to organize an effective union since 1933, when producers summarily cut their pay 50%. Principal result has been sharp rivalry between the Screen Writers Guild Inc. (membership 500) and Screen Playwrights Inc. (membership 130). When Screen Playwrights last year signed a contract with seven major studios, the S. W. G. responded by asking NLRB to make it the sole bargaining agent for screen writers. Last week, after considering the evidence for over eight months, NLRB ruled that...
...Neil) is in love. When, dissatisfied with the way she runs his household, he calls in the sister to assist her, Frou Frou is so broken-hearted that she runs away. Naturally, she does not run away alone; naturally, her escort is an irresponsible young gambler (Robert Young). Result of this situation is the inevitable duel. Result of the duel is Miss Rainer's best burst of blubbering since the one which got her her first Oscar in The Great Ziegfeld. Overdressed and antiquated, The Toy Wife redeems some of its defects by a conclusion which, to cinemaddicts...
...turn of the century. Wall Street was run by men in muttonchop whiskers, high square derbies, baggy trousers; they thought of stock prices as unrelated quotations on individual issues, often the result of manipulation. Charles H. Dow, a small, precise man, first editor of The Wall Street Journal, had a different idea; he had been keeping averages of railroad and industrial stock prices since 1897, had found beneath individual fluctuations a trend of the market as a whole...