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...Priced from 75? (matinee) to $2.20 (Manhattan's Astor), it had toppled house records almost everywhere. Produced for $3,850,000, it was expected to gross up to $20,000,000 in a year and a half (with foreign distribution). That would make a handsome profit for Distributor (and part owner) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Producer David Selznick (Selznick International), who split a reputed 70% of the box-office gross. And since the book on which it was based was the fastest selling U. S. novel, it would also copper-rivet GWTW as the all-time hard-cash classic...
...when he tied up with the motor industry by adding a side line of Mitchell, Case and Flanders automobiles to the stock of his general store at Troy, Idaho. They sold so well that he got rid of everything but the side line, moved to Spokane and became a distributor for Velie, Oldsmobile, Willys-Overland. Last spring he sold his Hudson agency for the Northwest for "about a half-million - that is the closest I can seem to remember." Taking on Graham-Paige's Pacific Coast agency, he staggered President Joseph Bolden Graham by selling 600 cars...
...would become a perennial movie renamed for its hero. The current Raffles is a fourth remake of the original nickelodeon thriller. It is also Producer Sam Goldwyn's second remake of the same film and his last picture for United Artists. He is now looking for a new distributor...
...edition of the famed International Bulletin's newest volume: Infantile Paralysis. The Bulletin, which contains the latest words of 25 world-scattered polio experts, is edited by enthusiastic Dr. William Leo Colze of Brussels, now in Manhattan. U. S. publisher and distributor is the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, headed by Presidential friend Basil O'Connor, who administers funds raised at the President's Birthday Balls. Nuggets of information...
...McElwain Co., Nashua, N. H., shoemaker, have got along fine. The arrangement between them has been that Melville contracts to take most (now 92%) of McElwain's yearly output, to be sold through its 652 Thom McAn chain stores. Under the plan the factory sold shoes to the distributor at cost, took a percentage of net profits from sales. This streamlined combine, which eliminated all conflict between the two main branches of an industry, did away with the expense of changing over machines, putting new models of shoes into production. It never failed to show a profit. Its boast...