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Ever since RKO laid down $150,000 for Producer Jerry (Johnny Belinda) Wald's Warner Bros, contract last June, Hollywood had been expecting something supercolossal out of the deal. Stretched out over two months, the negotiations between RKO's Howard Hughes and the producing team of Wald and Norman (The Big Hangover) Krasna kept Hollywood gossips atwitter with speculation. Last week, when RKO finally announced its big deal, the effect was almost as shattering as advertised...
...massive press conference in RKO's chart-lined budget room, Wald and Krasna beamed over the details of the juiciest independent production deal in movie history. In five years, Hollywood's "wonder boys" would make $50 million worth of A pictures for RKO release. The movies, to be cranked out at a production-line rate of twelve each year, would be financed 40% by Howard Hughes and 60% by Eastern banks. Besides weekly salaries of $2,700 apiece, Wald and Krasna would rake in 50% of the net profits on each of their 60 films...
Unlike most large-scale producing agreements, the deal put surprisingly few hobbles on Producers Wald and Krasna. Although Hughes reserved final decision on all films costing more than $900,000, he would do little more than approve the stars and basic story line on the rest. Furthermore, he guaranteed to make his decisions in every case within a week, and to release the finished product within 90 days, no matter how it turned...
...women have made a name in music as composers, fewer still as operatic composers. The only authoressed opera ever produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, Englishwoman Ethel Smyth's Der Wald, fizzled after two performances in 1903. But last week a onetime Metropolitan contralto-turned-composer was making a valiant...
...Newark, N.J., when she hired a cast to support her in her famous role of Tosca, critics sadly pronounced the same sorrowful judgment. But last week in Vienna, 62-year-old Maria Jeritza, still blonde, blooming and beauteous, was getting yesses that could be heard halfway to the Wiener Wald...