Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oxford, Miss., Mrs. Estelle Faulkner, wife of Novelist William (Sanctuary) Faulkner, disclosed that her husband gave away his 1950 Nobel Prize money. The writer, who is currently in Egypt working on a Warner Bros. CinemaScope movie, Land of the Pharaohs, put the $30,000 into a trust fund to be spent for scholarships and other good works...
Songs and Ballads of America's Wars (Frank Warner; Elektra). An informal collection of old pulse-bumpers, many of them all but forgotten. They range from Felix the Soldier, a delightfully wry recollection of the French and Indian War by a conscript Irishman, to such truculent songs of the Confederacy as The Bonnie Blue Flag and The Old Unreconstructed...
...Roach's production this year will top the combined footage of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros. Right from the first, says Roach "it was plain that this hungry TV medium could only be fed with film." But the casualties were high. Banks refused to lend money. The major studios refused to let their stars appear in TV shows. Of some 500 embryo TV filmmakers, only 46 survive, and only half a dozen make sizable profits. Roach aims solely at producing entertainment by assembly-line methods, says: "It's like the auto business...
...same time, the winners of the recently completed freshman and sophomore managerial competitions were announced. Warner R. Genieser '56 of Kirkland House and Philadelphia, won among the sophomores, while Robert P. Goold '57 of Wigglesworth Hall and Ventura, Calif, was first among the freshmen. Goold will receive class athletic numerals for winning the freshman competition...
...Majesty O'Keefe (Warner) may have a certain novelty for moviegoers who have not yet heard about how the natives were happy until the white man came. Money, says this script, grows on the coconut trees on the western Pacific island of Yap, but nobody bothers to pick it until Burt Lancaster makes port. He blackmails the poor natives into picking coconuts, and even becomes their king. But greed and lust soon pull the kingdom down, and the stage is set for love to conquer all. To satisfy the censors, somebody has to take the rap for Burt...