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...Perfect Specimen (Warner Bros.) experiments with the solemn hypothesis that a boy may be nurtured to-all-round perfection in a sort of social vacuum; but that when he is tested against assorted worldliness he will relapse into human frailty. Irish Cinemactor Errol Flynn, a godlike young man of limited acting ability, performs the title role, and in demonstrating his perfection is at one point required to take most of his clothes off.* In this picture he labors under the screen name of Gerald Beresford Wicks, who has been schooled in all the arts and sciences by a bossy grandmother...
Alcatraz Island (First National-Warner Bros.). Studio magic simulates the stern Federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, involves it in a loose-jointed melodrama acted by John Litel, Ann Sheridan, Mary Maguire, Dick Purcell and Gordon Oliver...
...minimum instead of the previous 50% of film-rights share, cutting the play manager's accordingly. Hollywood, accustomed to making the manager a dummy figure and further controlling play property destinies by entering into noncompetitive bidding accords with other studios, promptly stopped backing plays. Simultaneously seven studios (Warner Bros., Universal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Twentieth Century-Fox, Paramount, RKO-Radio, Columbia) set up the Bureau of New Plays, with canny Theresa Helburn (see p. 55) at the helm, offered advances on royalties, fellowships; hoped to corner young talent. Now in its second year, the Bureau has paid awards...
...Cleveland, on Aug. 6, Sheriff Martin O'Donnell's office received a scrawled anonymous letter: "This is just to warn you that the 2 Bird bros. you have in for bank robbery have it all set to break out at 3 o'clock this afternoon with their pal Widmer. . . ." A special guard was placed around the cells of Frank and Charles Bird, young Missouri desperadoes awaiting trial for bank robbery, and their friend James Widmer who last year escaped from the Missouri Penitentiary. Nothing happened...
Once past the doorman-a 7 ft. 5 in. young Texan named Dave Ballard-visitors stepped into an interior whose smoothly modernistic, chromium-&-glass door reminded some of them of a Warner Bros. set, others of the Chicago World's Fair. A bar, starting at street level, spiraled all the way up to the mezzanine (an ingenious arrangement necessitated by a New York State law forbidding two bars in the same establishment). An escalator led up to a cocktail-and-dancing lounge. In a huge elliptical room whose shallow-bowl shape made it seem smaller than...