Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week for conferences were Producers Selznick and Korda, and Producer Selznick's chief backer, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Chief problem before Selznick International was still: who will play Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind? Last week Producer Selznick failed to substantiate a rumor that Rhett had been assigned to an obscure American actor discovered in British cinema named Ken Duncan. Backer Whitney's wife, Philadelphia's sprightly onetime "Liz" Altemus, was screen-tested for Scarlett, which she will not play. Other major Selznick productions will be Prisoner of Zenda, with Ronald...
Carried in a Boston paper yesterday as "circulating about the Capital" was the rumor that newly-appointed Law School Dean Landis had received a letter from President Conant cautioning the S.E.C. chief about "indiscreet" court plan and sit-down statements, which had cost the University $250,000 worth of endowments...
...Harvard Clubs Indianapolis meeting, no statement concerning the rumor could be obtained. None of the officials who could be reached wished to take the report seriously enough to speak...
...46th season of the Chicago Symphony came to an end last week with Associate Conductor Hans Lange on the podium. Regular Conductor Frederick Stock is so old and ailing these days that Chicago rarely sees him. The rumor that he will resign is not confirmed. But Chicagoans had another resignation to mull over, and they paid their respects to Concertmaster Mischa Mischakoff by standing and cheering him a full five minutes. As concertmaster with the new NBC Orchestra under Toscanini and Rodzinski, Mischakoff will have an enviable post. Chicago will have lost its best violinist...
Until last week the full story behind that story had not been told. In its May issue FORTUNE cut through the maze of rumor and legend and revealed, without betraying its sources, the chain of events leading up to the settlement which averted a major industrial war. Branded as "pure hokum," along with the idea that the House of Morgan had forced the settlement, were reports that the burly labor leader and the patrician steelmaster had been brought together by 1) Manhattan's First National Bank, 2) President Thomas Moses of H. C. Frick Coke...