Word: tovarich
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...their incomes from the great bustling film industry, he knows that legitimate show business is not very big business, not even business. It is a gamble for all concerned and even the producer does not stand to make money in very large quantities. Gilbert Miller is delighted when Tovarich grosses $15,000 a week. George Abbott is lucky to get $12,000 out of Brother Rat. The only real money in show business comes occasionally from Hollywood, when a Goldwyn offers $160,000 for a Dodsworth or Columbia gets You Can't Take It With...
...buying more Manhattan plays than any of their rivals. At last week's convention in Manhattan, Warner executives boasted about $5,000,000 worth of stories already on their shelves to choose from. This year's 60 Warner productions will include eleven Manhattan plays, among them Tovarich, Yes, My Darling Daughter, Boy Meets Girl, White Horse Inn, On Your Toes. Also scheduled are two Technicolor pictures ; The Story of Emile Zola, to go with last year's Louis Pasteur; 17 pictures based on popular books...
...fragile anecdote, Cafe Metropole turns out to be thoroughly entertaining. Russian Actor Ratoff, who wrote the story from which Author Jacques Deval (Tovarich) adapted the screen play, acts his fat part with the enthusiasm it deserves, sets the pace for the rest of a cast of which each member is performing a specialty in which he is tops. Good shot: Adolphe Menjou, Hollywood's ablest exponent of the art of playing maitre d' hotel since The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926), introducing a dish of wild strawberries, brought from Algeria by special plane...
UnTiMEworthy is the phrase in TIME'S review of Tonight at 8:30 calling Noel Coward's harlequinade the "first smash hit of a middling season." On Oct. 16 (day following opening of Gilbert Miller's Tovarich), owl-eyed Brooks Atkinson of New York Times chuckled, applauded, said: "Tovarich is the season's first hit." On same day, scholarly, professorial looking John Mason Brown of the Post said: "Tovarich is the first smash hit of the season." Richard Watts, Jr., blue-shirted, plumpish pundit of Herald Tribune called Tovarich "the first resounding dramatic smash...
John Peter Toohey and John Latham Toohey are father & son, rival pressagents. Father John Peter has been general representative for Producer Sam H. Harris (Stage Door) for six years. Son John Latham. 20, got his first job three months ago with Helen Deutsch, pressagent for Producer Gilbert Miller (Tovarich). A "smash hit'' can be judged by its box-office score. Week of Nov. 30: Tovarich: $21,000; Stage Door: $19,000; Tonight...