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Publishing last week first results of a questionnaire addressed to exhibitors. Motion Picture Herald revealed that the most valuable players were Marie Dressier, Janet Gaynor, Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo; Wallace Beery. Will Rogers, Charles Farrell, Clark Gable, Wheeler & Woolsey. Producers lost most of their money on program pictures?pictures of standard length (55 to 60 min.) meant to fit in on any theatre program...
...each other to make sure the actors earn their salaries. Greta Garbo (MGM), who was planning to retire until last fortnight when she was reported to have lost $1,000,000 in the failure of the First National Bank of Beverly Hills, may make a picture for Paramount. Joan Crawford (MGM) last week finished Rain for United Artists. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will lend Clark Gable to Paramount in exchange for Fredric March. Warner Brothers may return Ruth Chatterton for one picture to Paramount, whence they lured her last year. Universal will lend Lew Ayres to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...Joan Crawford is the candid gold digger in the piece, and Clark Gable her only visible means of support. They manage to keep most of the honors to themselves as they trudge through several thousand feet of film which broke at odd intervals throughout the evening. Clark it seems had had an unlucky break in his first marriage so, although he loved Joan very much and she loved him, he would not run the risk of a second flasco. They therefore settle upon a very satisfactory, if unoriginal method of solving what, save in Hollywood, is a very perplexing problem...
...aged tale, but while there are men and women this sort of thing must go on. What's good enough for life is good enough for Hollywood. As a matter of fact it is an entertaining job for both Miss Crawford and Mr. Gable do very creditable performances. She is fair to see in almost any costume, and she has a lot of them, and what is more she can be a very good actress. He travels along his masculine way with grace and ease, though he is unconvincing as a politician and a Harvard man, both of which...
...done the week prior in Manhattan-set up a new committee to find channels through which the new credit could be pumped out to "reflate" trade & finance. On the committee, besides leading bankers, were such potent Chicago industrialists as President Alexander Legge of International Harvester Co.; President David A. Crawford of Pullman Co.; Chairman James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co.; Charles Glore of Field, Glore & Co.; President Robert E. Wood of Sears Roebuck & Co. Chosen as chairman was Sewell Lee Avery, able president of U. S. Gypsum Co. and of Montgomery Ward. "I have no magic in my briefcase...