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...play given last month by the high-school dramatic club at Saugus, Mass, (pop.: 15,000). What the townspeople of Saugus have been talking about ever since, however, is the behavior of the club's 25-year-old coach, honey-haired English Teacher Isabelle Hallin. An experienced summer trouper who spent three seasons with the Garrick Players at Kennebunkport, Me., Saugus-bred Miss Hallin wears attractive, form-fitting dresses, makes adroit use of cosmetics. Moreover, six Bishop rehearsals had been held in the cellar of her home. Were cigarets served? Cocktails? What happened...
...percentage of the gross. The contract was extraordinary for provisions giving von Sternberg and Dietrich complete choice of writers, cutters, story material, technicians. No publicity could be released which had not been personally checked by them. They had achieved the dream which, to the average hard-working trouper or director, seems like a mirage: complete dictatorship of their professional lives...
...that way last year in "Personal Appearance". And new in "Boy Meets Girl" the illegitimate stage, or at least one studio of it, is made to repose all its hopes for artistic expression in an illegitimate baby. After a trying attack of measles, this gallant little trouper called happy becomes a has-been at eight months. But one must not take Happy as a symbol for the movies in general, despite the marked parallels; nothing so subtle is meant...
...Bankhead) is alternately berated and praised by her hard-boiled and single-minded manager (Clay Clement), is tirelessly pursued by a stodgy suitor from her home town. The sympathy with which she receives his proposals of marriage is discouraged by the manager, by the acrid philosophizing of a fellow trouper (Ann Andrews) and the appearance of a more appealing admirer (Phillip Reed). Although she achieves success in Manhattan, she seems perfectly willing to give up her career to marry this charmer until he is exposed as an actress-chasing cad with a concealed wife & child. When the home-town suitor...
...jeopardy in a land which insists that its film stars be sexy but not immoral. Hollywood's most worried man was old Sam Goldwyn, in whose Dodsworth Miss Astor is currently cast as the expatriate seductress. Guarding Miss Astor from newshawks, the Goldwyn pressagents explained: "Mary is a trouper, but you never can tell. She might 'blow up' under pressure if we let people see her and then where would...