Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 60 Rodin made his best drawings, which nowadays most critics prefer to his statues. He used to set models loose in his studio like doves, and watch them move -his pencil poised like a hawk in midair. Compared with the flying line of his drawings, some of Rodin's sculpture seems trapped in the clay...
...such delays are costly. For example, Betty Grable may have been signed to a $3,000 a week contract based on her studio's calculation that it could star her in four pictures a year; since each picture now takes about twice as much time, that same contract must be supported by two pictures or less. All of this means trouble when the present abnormal movie boom tapers off and admission prices are cut. The box-office take, which soared with rising ticket prices (see chart), can drop just as rapidly...
...Hollywood, the dispute between the belligerent Conference of Studio Unions and monopolistic International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes over who would do carpentry and painting on movie sets (TIME, Oct. 7) continued with little sign of settlement. C.S.U. pickets outside MGM, Warner, Universal and Republic lots tried to stop busloads of I.A.T.S.E. workers and imported goons from crashing their lines. In one melee, Deputy Sheriff Dean Stafford, knocked down and kicked unconscious, was rescued by Deputy Gilbert Leslie, who kept pickets at bay with the threat of his drawn revolver. In one brawl nine deputies and seven strikers were hospitalized...
...become, at 37, something of a phenomenon in two different fields: architecture and the movies. In his Los Angeles office, he and a staff of eight are now designing: 1) a $7½ million Beverly Hills medical center; 2) a $1 million experimental theater for Paramount; 3) a studio for RKO; and 4) another hospital, two other theaters, two city-planning projects. All told, their volume of business tops $18 million. Last week, busy Mr. Pereira took on another job. He signed a five-year contract with RKO as a producer (for an undisclosed figure which added substantially...
...built 75 theaters for B. & K. in the next six years, found his way to Hollywood. Paramount was then planning a $15 million studio, and firms from all over the country were bidding on it. Brash young Bill, who had always been fascinated by big jobs-the more complicated the better -sauntered in and asked: "Do you know what you want?" Said Paramount...