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Destry Rides Again (Universal). One day this year Hungarian-born Producer Joe Pasternak had an idea for a U. S. western. He would take German-born Marlene Dietrich, cast her as French-born entertainer in a Wild West saloon. He would take Russian-born Mischa Auer, cast him as an expatriate Cossack with a will to be a cow hand. He would take U. S.-born James Stewart, cast him as an easy-talking, no-gun sheriff who brings law'to lawless Bottle Neck, routs its bad men by using his head instead of his trigger finger. Producer Pasternak...
Divorced. Miriam Hopkins, 36, blonde, hot-eyed cinemactress; from Anatole Litvak, 37, Russian-born Paris and Hollywood director (Mayerling, Tovarich-); in Reno, Nev. Grounds: cruelty...
...Russian-born Director Lewis Milestone, a job at $1,750. Today Myron Selznick & Co. (listed under both M and S in the Manhattan Telephone Directory as a concession to unsophisticated clients) represents some 200 performers and directors who include most of Hollywood's big names. For getting their jobs, boosting their salaries and performing a variety of other services from straightening out their household accounts to watching their income taxes, Agent Selznick collects a straight 10% of their earnings, binds them to five-year contracts. In Hollywood round numbers, the Selznick clients' payroll is annually...
Three immigrants, now U. S. citizens, were awarded annual scrolls of the National Institute of Immigrant Welfare for "significant contributions to American life": Russian-born David Sarnoff, 48, President of R. C. A.; Scotland-born William Allan Neilson, 70, President of Smith College; Moravian-born Albin Polasek, 60, famed Chicago sculptor...
...ballet: An entirely reorganized company under the direction of Russian-born Choreographer Boris Romanoff...