Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema star's face is her fortune, and her agent gets 10%. When early this month Agent Myron Selznick tried to double Cinemactress Loretta Young's salary (about $35,000 a picture) and get her the right to work for other studios than Twentieth Century-Fox,* outraged Producer Joseph M. Schenck ordered him off the lot. Last week observers thought this tiff might have reverberations: As new president of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc., forceful Producer Schenck could influence other executives to follow his lead. The Selznick agency, Producer Schenck said, had tried to jack...
Checkers (Twentieth Century-Fox). Ever since brattish Jane Withers muscled in on dimpled Shirley Temple's territory in Bright Eyes three years ago hollering for a gat, she has continued to rise in the affections of the U. S. public. She now stands sixth in box-office popularity. Plumpish, 11-year-old Jane, mixed up with a race-track crowd, repairs a shaky romance, helps nurse an injured race horse back to health, paces him to a neck-and-neck Derby finish...
...theory that Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over an oil lantern, thus starting the fire, seems to be of dubious historical accuracy. Nevertheless, Twentieth Century-Fox is privileged to rewrite history in the interests of drama, and drama it surely is which the film provides once the fateful lantern is upset. Streets are mobbed with frantic people; flames roar through the tightly-packed slums, ignite a gas tower, stampede the stock yards, and drive the whole South side into the Chicago River...
International Settlement (Twentieth Century-Fox) makes a bee line to the Far East to cash in on the publicity value of the daily Sino-Japanese headlines. More worthy of note than its short-order plot are: 1) its resourceful utilization of the newsreel shots of the Shanghai bombing (TIME, Sept. 13); 2) its hopeful experiment with doll-like, undistinguished June Lang (real name: Jane Vlasek) as a beautiful-but-dumb comedian; 3) its commanding hero, 6 ft.-3 in. George Sanders. Russian-born of British parents, Sanders made a great stir in his first Hollywood role, as the foppish Lord...
...Locser Collections and precious examples bought from the great Oppenheimer Collection in London, some fifty-five drawings have been selected for this exhibit. "Old Master Drawings" is the title but the footnote may be added that this has been interpreted broadly to include about twenty from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...