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...found a valuable patron in the Broadway songwriter B.G. (Buddy) De Sylva. When he was named Paramount's production chief, he took Hutton to Hollywood and made her a star. Rather, she did it herself. He just turned the cameras on her. Which was easier said than done. Directors complained that she was too peripatetic to keep in view. According to the TIME cover: "De Sylva had a camera dolly rigged up and told the director to follow her all over the set if necessary." The film frame was a cage she was bound to burst...
...talks about her troubles with co-stars, saying that the Paramount contractees gave her a hard time because "they thought I was sleeping with Buddy De Sylva" and saying that the actors in Annie Get Your Gun, for which she recorded all her songs in one day, "were awful to me" because she had replaced the emotionally bereft Judy Garland. "Annie Get Your Gun was the end of me, inside." I'm guessing Howard Keel would have had a different take on that story...
Commissioner S. Russell Sylva has said his department would have trouble with the costly and demanding task of meeting quotas...
...city's negotiating team "may think we're close to an agreement, but we're not at all," Margaret E. Sylva, chairperson of the city nurse's union, said. Sylva said that wages and several clerical duties the nurses do not want to continue to perform are the main stumbling blocks to a settlement...
Patient care is currently being harmed by the abnormally large turnover of city nurses caused by low wages, Sylva said...