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From balcony to pit the audience, which had come to see a revival of Kaufman & Ferber's Stage Door, seethed with indignation. Actress Ilena Sylva was actually chomping a real banana-scarcest of all delicacies in Britain...
...yowl of anguish shook the rafters. Miss Sylva valiantly spoke the moderately funny lines for which the banana business had been a cue, but they were completely drowned in the hubbub. A perfectly good banana had been sacrificed to make-believe...
Louisiana Purchase (Paramount) is the kind of tasteful, tuneful, genial, comic job that Hollywood often boggles. But Paramount knew what it was up to a year ago when it drafted Broadway's Buddy De Sylva, producer of the Broadway original, and made him production head of the studio...
...best women golfers in the U.S. include Helen Silleck Holleran (co-owner of the New York Yankee baseball empire), Sylva Annenberg Leichner (niece of Publisher Moe Annenberg) and Grace Amory (ex-stepsister of Turfman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt). Last week in Brookline, Mass., these gold-spoon golfers and no other top-flight amateurs matched strokes for the Women's Golf Championship...
Then Buddy went east and staged three fabulously successful Broadway musicomedies in quick succession: Du Barry Was a Lady, Louisiana Purchase, Panama Hattie. Last week Buddy De Sylva was back in Hollywood with a new job. As of May 1, he will be production head of Paramount-a job as big as Zanuck...