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...Some men endow a hospital or put up a monument to mark what they consider a miraculous escape, but Anderson wrote a book, The Other Side of the Bottle (A. A. Wyn; $3), published last week as part of his contribution to the saving of other alcoholics. Longtime Pressagent Anderson did publicity for the Medical Society of the State of New York soon after he was dried out, became its executive secretary in 1945. He has pitched in as a director of the National Committee on Alcoholism to help doctors reach and treat more & more of his fellow sufferers...
...since come to be regarded as the beginning of Harvard's golden age. Last week, present-day readers could catch a little of the shine of that era through a new book by onetime Harvard Lecturer Rollo Walter Brown (Harvard Yard in the Golden Age; A. A. Wyn...
From a pasty, undistinguished Sinclair Lewis novel, Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer has taken a title, a handful of characters, and a setting. Right about there the Hollywood adaptation of "Cass Timberlane" leaves Mr. Lewis and trundles its own merry way down the ancient trail where boy meets girl meets problem meets inevitable happy ending...
Died. Edgar Selwyn, 68, cinema and stage producer; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. Long on Broadway, he started as a film producer in 1912, put the "wyn" in Goldwyn when he merged with Samuel Goldfish in 1916. Director of Helen Hayes's Oscar-winning movie (The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931), Selwyn's best-known Broadway productions were Why Marry (1917-first Pulitzer Prize play), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1926), The Wookey...
Come Live With Me (Metro-GoId-wyn-Mayer) is a farfetched, whimsical comedy about a struggling young author (James Stewart) who marries a Viennese refugee (Hedy Lamarr) to save her from deportation. Complication: the man Wife Lamarr really wants to marry is a publisher (Ian Hunter) who buys Husband Stewart's book. It is no surprise to anybody when, after making off with Hedy, Husband Stewart persuades her to change her mind...