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Meanwhile Trustbuster Thurman Arnold joined the fray, charged the producers with "harsh, onerous and unfair trade practices," indicted Hollywood's Big Eight (Loew's, Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO Radio, 20th-century Fox, Columbia, Universal, United Artists) under the antitrust laws. His announced objective was to divorce production and distribution, make the big producers ' give up their 2,400 theatres. Last spring he called the industry a dictatorship, insisted it must be reorganized. While independent exhibitors cheered, the Big Eight sent their lawyers to Washington...
...Warner Bros, didn't use her, wouldn't let anyone else either. Irwin obtained her release and put her into Broadway's Les Ambassadeurs nightclub, where the late great comedy team of Clayton, Jackson & ("Schnozzle") Durante offered a grade of lunacy which their admirers still feel has never been equaled. Ethel was still far from feature billing and remained so until 1930, when she began to reach larger audiences. At a banquet connected with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's campaign for reelection as Governor of New York she added The Star-Spangled Banner to her lusty repertoire...
Democratic President makers are Colonels House and Harvey. Publisher George Brinton McClellan Harvey, president of Harper & Bros., charmed by Wilson's phrasemaking, promoted the president of Princeton from wrangling with the college trustees to the Governorship of New Jersey. For this, Wilson, afraid Harvey's Wall Street connections might injure his role of reformer in the eyes of the masses, soon kicked his backer downstairs. President Maker House was a soft-footed, soft-voiced, soft-eyed Texan who finessed Wilson into the White House. Later Wilson broke with...
...HEADLESS LADY-Clayton Rawson-Putnam ($2). Merlini, magician, can't let circuses or murders alone. Visiting the Hannum Bros. show, he starts to prove the owner's fatal car smashup a homicide. Then State troopers find a decapitated brunette in his own car. Lots of Big-Top jargon...
Flowing Gold (Warner Bros.) opens with Johnny Blake (John Garfield) moodily waiting in line for a job with a handful of other oil-field "roughnecks." Soon a stranger justifiably snorts: "Boy, you sure got a chip on your shoulder," and Johnny snarls: "Want to try and knock it off?" From then on it is merely a question of waiting to see who hits whom with what...