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guild members out of 800 have been accused.” These have been subpenaed by District Attorney Buren Fitts of Los Angeles County, biit “experienced difficulty in being |served,” the guild said.
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SCREEN WRITERS BACK 14 ACCUSED
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 23 (U. P.).— The Screen Writers Guild today resolved to support the “small group of its members” who have been accused of subversive activities and
Form Temporary Alliance
HOLLYWOOD
By PAUL HARRISON
HOLLYWOOD, AUG. 23 —BEHIND THE SCREEN: GRETA GARBO and the carrot-juice salesman, Bengamin Gayelord Hauser, are pals again. Lately they've been taking long, morning walks along the beaches, the actress swinging along in slacks,
but barefoot. . . . At an amusement pier, almost deserted at that hour, camera-shy Miss Garbo sat in one of those machines which automatically photograph a customer, and made faces at the lens, . . . She hasn’t made a face at a news photographer in some time. The boys are ignoring her at plays and concerts. = = 2 OTHER NIGHT at a local theater which gces in heavily for prizes, both pictures were so bad that even a woman who won an automobile went to the boxoffice to get her money back. = ” ” CLARK GABLE commented on “Boom Town”: “It’s got everything in it except the kidnaping of Charlie Ross.” . For big-scale entertainment, the new scheme of little Billy Rose sounds like the greatest show on or off the earth. He plans a sky rgvue, with plane and fancy tricks, pretty gals, Paul Whiteman music, strip-teasers, and vocal soloists drifting down in parachutes, and a “chorus” of 60 captive balloons. = = = AN AUSTRALIAN producer, Eric Porter, has made an animated cartoon called “Adolf in Plunderland.” . . . Metro's “Mortal Storm” is a boxoffice sensation, helping to prove that Hollywood's stam-
3rd BIG WEEK
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PARAMOUNT FIRED Muriel Angelus without waiting to see if she'd be a hit in “The Great McGinty.” Suv now it wants her to come back. Metro released Ilona Massey with the unofficial
explanation that one feminine singing star on the payroll is enough. Apparently nobody at the studio thought of any Jeanette MacDonald-Massey conflict during the two expensiie years in which the latter was being
| groomed and trained. So now, a | proven success, she’s a bargain 8 at any price for any studio, and
they're all bidding like mad. 4 uw AND SPEAKING of dimmed will play a sister roie with Gloria
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Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable aren’t always on speaking terms in “Boom Town.” But at this moment they've joined forces to “tell The film is now ifi its third week at Loew's,
Film Makers Dissolve Firm
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| Selznick International Pictures
Blames War.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23 (U. P.).— [Stockholders of Selznick Interna[tional Pictures, Inc. voted today to liquidate at once. Dissolution was voted unanimously because of “present economic conditions brought about by the European war,” an announcement said. The corporation's financial condition was said to be excellent. Its producing and distribution contracts have been assumed by David Selznick Productions, Inc., a new corporation formed in California last week. Its physical assets will be offered for sale immediately, it was announced. Selznick International produced “Goue With the Wind,” one of the biggest money makers in film history; “Rebecca,” “A Star Is Born” and “The Adventures of Tom Sawver.” The new corporation will function with its contracts, stars, technicians, and many of its employees. The dissolution was seen as a liquidation primarily of its international business, which, in common with that of other film companies, has been hit hard by the war. The entire investment of the stockholders, who include John Hay Whitney, C. V. Whitney, Myron Selznick, Mrs. Charles S. Payson, Norma Shearer, Robert Lehman, David O. Selznick, was represented {in $2900000 in debentures which {have been retired in full, plus an(nual interest of 6 per cent, and all |bank loans have been repaid in full,
|it was announced.
The new corporation takes over the contracts of Vivien Leigh, star Ingrid Joan Fontaine,
Bergman and
|other stars developed by Selznick
| International; Alfred Hitchcock, the ‘famous English director, and the (other players and directors. It also assumes a contract to produce two pictures for distribution | through United Artists, Inc. Daniel {'T. O'Shea, vice president of Selznick International, becomes general man{ager of the new corporation, and other International executives were expected to join the new company.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 23 (U. P).— Radio went ahead today building up a reservoir of popular and classical music Yor use on the air after Jan. 1 when its contract with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers expires and the A. S. C. A. P. music pool becomes, unavailable for radio. Broadcast Music, Inc, the company formed by the National Association of Broadcasters to gather this music, was heartened by the appeafance for the first time of a B. M. I. song .on a radio program Mich selects the 10 most popular song B. M. I. officials also were cheered by the addition of 55 new stations to the list of ‘those which will use its music. This makes a total of 365 stations representing 85 per cent of the dollar value of the industry,
according to B. M. I. sources.
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Replacement of A. S. C. A, P. music is an admittedly impressive task but B. M. I. feels certain it will be able to feed sufficient music to radio to keep programs going if the current impasse continues. A. S. C. A. P. has presented a new contract which the radio chains have denounced as excessive and not a fit basis for discussion. Under its current contract A. S. C. A. P. received about $4,100,000 in 1939. The chains claim radio would have to pay between $8,000,000 and $9,000,000 under the new contract. A. S. C. A. P. explains that the increase is due to a levy of 7% per cent on the income on the chains as such. Hitherto, it said, stations have been assessed as single units and not as groups, even where programs were sold to such groups. May Deal Direct An A. S. C. A. P. official said that some advertising agencies, perturbed by the impending loss of A. S. C. A. P’s immense musical library— that is, most of the music now familiar to radio listeners—were considering dealing directly with A. S. C. A. P, eliminating radio as the middle man. This official said these advertising agencies would get what music they needed for their programs from A. S. C. A. P. and would not rely on a radio to provide it.
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Jones Singers Complete Tour
The Floyd Jones Singers will give their annual at 3 p. m. Sunday at the First Baptist Church. This will be the third year that the choir has closed its summer tour with an Indianapolis concert. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Jones and the 30 singers in the choir recently returned from a two-months concert trip to the West Coast and to Niagara Falls and other cities in the East. The choir’s other activities during the week-end will include a broadcast on WLW at 3:30 p. m. tomorrow, a broadcast on WFBM from CMB Class meeting at the Third Christian Church Sunday at 9:30
Street Christian Church at 11 a. m,, and a program in the Greenwood High School auditorium Sunday evening.
SISTERS SING AND CROWD GOES AWAY
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 23 (U. P).— The Lane sisters, Lola, Rosemary and Priscilla, told today how residents of San Gabriel, Cal.,, forced them to make an unscheduled public appearance. The sisters were appearing in the Iming of a scene in “Four Mothers” on the platform of the San Gabriel railroad station. The music attracted a crowd so large the movie
|ekers could not film the sequences.
The film people offered to sing for the crowd if it would disperse and let them go back to work. So the Lane girls, Gale Page, Eddie Albert and Dick Foran sang two selections oyer a public address system.
RIVERSIDE ADDS '6 WONDER DOGS'
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RECORDINGS
Victor Company Follows Columbia With Reduction in Price of All of Waxings
By JAMES THRASHER
LAST WEEK IT was Columbia, and this week it is Victor which announces price reduction in all records. The Victor slash is as much as one-half in the high-price field. It appears that the recording firms as well as the public should The 10 or 12 albums which the National Committee for Music Appreciation sold at rock-bottom pricgs opened up a
benefit by this move.
great potential market. But, at the old figures, the new-found enthusiasm might have been stymied by a price tag. Today, however, with both major companies retailing an album at $5.50 which formerly cost $10, and with similar reductions down the line, the record sales volume threatens to approach that of pre-radio days. a ” o Schubert, Selections from “Die Winterreise”; Lotte Lehmann, soprano, with Paul Ulanofsky at the piano, (Victor. The whole literature of German lieder contains tew greater songs than the 24 in Schubert's cycie, “Die Winterreise.” Nor, I think, can we find today a greater lieder singer than Lotte Lenmann. Put artist and songs together and you have a red-letier day on any musical caiendar. Toere are only two flaws in the offering. The “Winterreise” songs suoild be sung by a man. And the inclusion of only 11 songs in the present volume engenders the seifish wish that Mme. Lehmann ha” done the other 13. However, these are minor objections. Mr. Ulanofsky’'s important part in the collaboration is flawlessly realized. Crahms, Symphony No. 2 in D Major; Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra (Victor), Here is a straightforward, full=bodied performance of this much played, much recorded and much loved symphony. Mr. Ormandy tries to do nothing eccentric with the magnificent music, and the orchestra’s virtuoso playing is, as always, glossy in tone and compelling in sonority. The recording is below par. There is surface noise in some places, and the loud passages are frequently as thick as porridge. I don't believe this is the fault of either the players or Mr. Ormandy, whose conception of the work proclaims an insistence on clarity and good balance. Purcell, “When I Am Laid in Earth” (Dido and Aeneas); Scarlatti, “Se Florindo e Fedele”; Marian Anderson, contralto, with Kosti Vehanen at the piano (Victor). Two favorite items of Miss Anderson’'s recital repertory, sung magnificently. She invests the first with a mood of majestic, tragic dignity; the second is properly capricious, light and brilliant, Together they are yet another proof of this artist's amazing versatility. Stra: , “Rosenkavalier” Waltzes; Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin, pianists (Victor). Mr. Babin's tasteful and faith-
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ample to other transcribers. No excessive counterpoint bogs down the music's gailety, as sometimes happens. Puccini, chiamano Mimi” (La Boheme); Charpentier, “Depuis le jour” (Louise); Grace Moore, soprano, with ‘the Victor Symphony Orchestra conducted by Wilfred Pelle~ tier (Victor). The most celebrated Louise of our day does much better with the aria from that opera than with the one from “La Boheme,” in which her singing is rather too hard and brilliant. Schubert, “Hark, Hark the Lark”; Brahms, “Sapphic Ode”; Wolf, “Weyla’s Song”; Kerstin Thorborg, contralot, with Leo Rose~ nek at the piano (Victor).
Mme. Thorborg’s big rich voice is better suited to the Brahms and Wolf songs than to the Schubert, which demands considerable lightness. The “Sapphic Ode” is particularly well sung.
LONDON SEES 'GONE' FOR 25-35 CENTS
LONDON, Aug. 23 (U. P.).—British filmland’'s private war is over— a victory has been won by the showman and the public. For many months there has been much squabbling and opposition to the vigorous attempt by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to insist on minimum admission of 87 cents by day, and $1.12 by night, to view “Gone With the Wind.” This film can now be seen for 25 cents—with the top price 75 cents.
BUDDY'S SISTER DIES
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 23 (U. P.).—Mrs. Geraldine Binford, 38, sister of band leader Buddy Rogers, died here last night after a long illness. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Bert Rogers, Olathe, Kas.; her brother, Buddy and his wife, film star Mary Pickford; her husband, John J. Binford, Cincinnati, and another brother, BH Rogers of Olathe.
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