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...Sunday showings of Miss Julie.
The film, a gloomy Swedish import dealing with sexual abnormality,
approved for weekday exhibition, was turned down by Massachusetts
Commissioner of Public Safety Otis M. Whitney and Mayor John Foley as
"inconsistent with [the Sabbath's] due observance.'' In neighboring
Boston. RKO Pictures Corp. distributors fought a similar blue law ban
on Sunday showings of The French Line.
...time Hecht replied to critics who say that he is biting the hands that fed him. Said he: "I got $12,000 from M-G-M for writing Viva Villa, and all the studio made on the picture was $2,000,000 net. I was paid $19,000 by RKO for writing Scarf ace, which made between $2,000,000 and $4,000,000 net for the studio. Sam Goldwyn paid me $50,000 for Wuthering Heights, and all Sam made was a million. David Selznick, the finest boss I had in Hollywood, paid me $75,000for Spellbound...
...loan into a $3,400,000 fortune. After the Federal Trade Commission cracked down on him for "deceptive sales practices" and U.S. postal authorities warned him against conducting a lottery by mail, Punchboard King Stolkin headed for Hollywood. He took charge of a five-man syndicate that bought RKO from Howard Hughes and named himself president. But Stolkin's interesting past soon caught up with him; stockholders' complaints forced Stolkin & Co. to sell RKO back to How ard Hughes at a loss of $1,350,000 (TIME...
...Miss Rome, ran second in the Miss Italy competition. Two years after that, she married Dr. Skofic, got a showy role in a picture about beauty contests called Miss Italia, and an urgent invitation from Hollywood to come quick and take a screen test, all expenses paid. The sender: RKO Boss Howard Hughes, who had just seen a picture of Gina in a Bikini...
...Hughes agents, who shooed reporters away, bundled her into a limousine, hurried her off to "a hotel distant from the center of the city . . . I discovered I was practically locked in the hotel, unable to get in touch with anyone." All day she endured English lessons, '"orrible RKO peectures," rehearsals for her screen test, and the importuning of lawyers, who wanted her to sign a contract written in legal English...