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...Navy Cross as a flyer in World War I before he got his diploma at Yale. Son of a noted lawyer and railroader, he married the boss's daughter first, then-after proving his ability with other firms-became a partner in the old banking house of Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. Called to Washington in 1940 as special assistant to Secretary Stimson, then made Assistant Secretary of War for Air, he found what he now fondly calls "a hell of a mess." To Bob Lovett, more than any other one man, goes credit for unifying the Air Corps, giving...
...hard to say who is making it tougher for the girls, Warner Bros, or stubborn George Brent. Brent, a rich construction engineer, is the fly in the probate. He could settle everything, but won't because Sister Stanwyck, spokesman of the trio, won't sell him the family Fifth Avenue mansion which is blocking a kind of Rockefeller Center he's building. Stubborn Sister Stanwyck won't sell because her father told her not to. Besides, she was once secretly married to Brent-just long enough to collect a badly needed inheritance from her Aunt Sophronia...
Novelist Stephen Longstreet has a grudge against lawyers and wrote The Gay Sisters to say so. In his novel the lawyers made off with most of the sisters' estate. Warner Bros., with no grudge at all against lawyers, are constrained to angle the picture's villainies some other way. They do it by suggesting that there is something vaguely unholy about owning real estate. The result is a picture whose ponderous pointlessness may well have been foreseen by prescient Miss Stanwyck on the first day's shooting. Said she to Cinemactor Brent, as the cameras prepared...
...probably will. Opening night the take was $45,000. with tickets at a $27.50 top. Warner Bros. is paying $250,000 for the movie rights. The sheet-music sale on Berlin's songs will bring in another hunk. But This Is The Army should bag most of its take at the box office...
Biggest buyers were industrial plants, utilities, large owners of urban properties, big mercantile establishments. Gimbel Bros, and its affiliated stores went in for $64 million coverage; Consolidated Edison for $300 million; A.T. & T., $1.4 billion...