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...meeting. Mrs. Ruth Wyler Messinger '62, author of the new constitution, defended the decision to de-emphasize the role of Board of Hall in governing the College. "One of SGA's big problems has been the duplication of its work by small autonomous bodies. We want to make the RGA Council the sole legislating body and see if it can function effectively...
...basic problem is that we have an awful lot of groups and nobody knows who does what or why," Ruth Wyler Messinger '62, reporting for the committee, explained at an SGA meeting yesterday. She pointed out that, in the past, the Board of Hall Presidents and the SGA representatives have performed parallel legislative functions...
After buying the best material they can find, the Mirisch brothers hire the best directors in Hollywood, then give them artistic control over their films, plus part ownership of the negatives. This has attracted such major directorial names as Billy Wilder, William Wyler and Fred Zinnemann, all of whom are currently at work on Mirisch films. Since, as independents, the brothers operate with a negligible overhead (5% v. Columbia's 22½%, lowest overhead of a major studio), there is plenty of money for directors and stars alike. Even other independents shy from the pace of the three...
...ensuing years, Hollywood's attitude toward sex, natural and otherwise, has undergone a radical change. A case in point is Director William Wyler's forthcoming remake of Lillian Hellman's play, The Children's Hour, a study of two teachers falsely accused of Lesbianism. When the picture was first made in 1936, the Hays office kept Producer Sam Goldwyn both from announcing that he had purchased the play and from using its title (the film was released as These Three), insisted that he change the plot to a conventional heterosexual triangle. Director Wyler...
Other juniors are Miss Cornelia P. Wilson of 12 Walker St. and Chappaqua, N.Y., and Miss Ruth J. Wyler of Cabot Hall and New York City...