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...Flynn. In Hollywood's reminiscent imaginations the affair Flynn began to assume the proportions of a first-class local disaster-of the career-wrecking variety that once turned Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle into a has-been. In Hollywood a new million-dollar Flynn picture (Desperate Journey) was booed. Warner Bros, worried: on hand are two more whopping potential liabilities: $1,000,000 worth of Gentleman Jim and $1,000,000 of Edge of Darkness (Hollywood "wits" last week reported that the title of Gentleman Jim was to be changed to merely Jim-a report Warner Bros. denied.) The harried actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Law | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...mean promoter himself, President McKinnon countered with a national Aircraft Women's Club, whose merchandising potency so impressed Los Angeles' big Barker Bros.' home-furnishings store that it established six free clubhouses for chapter members. Still on the inside track, McKinnon figures that his three papers ought to considerably fatten up the $500,000 gross he made last year with only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Out of the Valley | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...Voyager (Warner) is the Warner Bros.' solemn contribution to the study of the mother complex. Sympathetically directed by Irving Rapper, sensibly acted by Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and a massive supporting cast, the picture often succeeds (in the course of two hours) in looking like the moving and intelligent drama it thinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 2, 1942 | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...Hollywood Betty kept a sharp eye out for film contacts. Three turned up in the persons of a trio of youthful Warner Bros, employes. Betty frankly admitted that she had been intimate with all three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Cinemess | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

Many a degree holder looks upon his sheepskin as symbol of his success in mastering all the ideas of his profession. "According to the Gibbsian philosophy, 'he gets to thinking he is so goddam bright that it just paralyzes him.'" Franklin, Edison, the Wright Bros, held no degrees [except honorary] in their professions, "curiously enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1942 | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

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