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Marie MacDonald, reasonably nicknamed "The Body," won a fight to cancel her contract with Hollywood Producer Hunt Stromberg, promptly said she was shucking the nickname, would "get by hereafter on my ability...
Marie McDonald, who claims exclusive rights to the nickname "The Body" (see cut), had contract trouble with Hollywood Producer Hunt Stromberg. She sued to cancel, but Stromberg brought to court a letter he thought proved that he and she were on fine terms. The letter opened "Dear Daddy S.," and informed him she had the measles. "They wanted to take pictures of my spots," she wrote, "but I drew the line. After all!" Signed: "The Spotted Body...
This week she could finally be seen in celluloid-not once, but twice. Hughes's $2,500,000 The Outlaw was ready for public release (first showing: Richmond). So was Young Widow, a picture Jane made for Producer Hunt Stromberg. Hughes had made his peace with some of the censors who growled after The Outlaw's San Francisco showing; he also did not want to be scooped by Stromberg...
...Mill (music by Victor Herbert; book & lyrics by Henry Blossom; produced by Paula Stone & Hunt Stromberg Jr.) has never before been revived on Broadway since it first nourished there -starring Montgomery & Stone-in 1906. There was no overpowering reason for reviving it now. The Victor Herbert music is nice but hardly notable. The book, jokes and horseplay are not only antiquated for 1945 but were probably no better than average for 1906. Yet this production has the disarming trait of not trying to bridge the years. It makes no effort to scrape any of the red mildew...
...said RCA, NBC, Zenith, General Electric, Stromberg-Carlson, FM Broadcasters Inc.-the move to a higher band might delay FM's postwar development, might make the present 500,000 FM sets useless, boost the price of new receiving sets, necessitate equipment changes...