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Responsible for the Hollywood aspects of this experiment is a man named Vanda of CBS. CBS has invested $50,000 in a series of twelve try out shows (blanket title: Forecast) that it hopes will make hay when the summer doldrums are over. Last year, from a similar showcase, CBS sold Duffy's Tavern, now sponsored by Schick Magazine Repeating Razor Co. Besides Marlene's Scheherazade, other straw-hat sustainers this year will include Mischa Auer, Adolphe Menjou, Frank McHugh...
...hand at snaring such top-flight cinema talent for noncommercial rates is sharp-tongued, tapir-nosed Charles Vanda, 38, producer of Forecast. He also produces Lolly Parsons' Hollywood Premières and the Hollywood end of the U.S. Treasury's Millions for Defense. Acidulous on all matters, particularly Hollywood, Vanda is enormously popular with reporters, is privily referred to by actors as "The Toad." Mordantly witty, as typical of Manhattan as a knish, Vanda has a ready excuse for his devastating blintzkriegs. "It's all an act," he says. "Inside I'm just a sissy...
...South African diamond merchant, Vanda began his career in the U.S. as copywriter for J. Walter Thompson, which never saw its way clear to use any of his copy. Later he did small-time press-agentry, served as saxophonist in a band, was a gossip columnist for Theatre Magazine, broke into radio as a theatrical commentator. In 1933 he joined CBS, was made West Coast program director in 1938. Vanda is married to the sister of Benay Venuta, lives in what he describes as a "synthetic estate" atop a hill in North Hollywood, now earns some $700 weekly from...
...spoken superbly. As is rare in an American movie, but usual in a French, each character is an individual. The expressive nuances of gesture and intonation, which distinguish French acting, are in delightful abundance. Jeanne Cheirel, a French Alison Skipworth, is gruffly ingratiating as the Duchesse de Treville; Vanda Greville, without being obvious, is uproariously graceless as the English girl, and Jeanne Tissier, playing the lionized love-lecturer, creates a subtle balance between timidity and conceit. All the players live their parts, and are doubly humorous in being unconscious of their humor...
Married. Paul Whiteman, 41, bandmaster; and Margaret Livingston, 29, cinemactress; at Morrison, Colo. Jazzman Whiteman, who upon his divorce from wife No. 3, Dancer Vanda Hoff, declared: "Marriage is for the middle class, not for artists" (TIME, Feb. 9), posed with wife No. 4 beside a wedding gift-a pensive, plebeian...