Word: poisons
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...irreverence to the manager: "My God, it's disgraceful." Responsible for the revival of The Sheik in New York was President Harry Brandt of New York's Independent Theatre Owners Association, Inc., who last month announced that a quorum of Hollywood's top-ranking stars were "poison at the box office." Chortled Mr. Brandt, whose picture was doing almost as lively a trade as Mr. Jensen's just down the avenue: "It took a star like Valentino who has been dead twelve years to bring people to the box office...
...exhibitors met them with more determined sales resistance than ever before. In the season just closing, exhibitors had heard far too often the ugly noises made by disapproving audiences; their pocketbooks were feeling pinched. Some exhibitors thought the trouble lay with stars who seemed to be "boxoffice poison" (TIME, May 16). Most of them knew the real trouble: inferior pictures. Meanwhile the Government has cast a quizzical eye over Hollywood's trade practices. While film circles last week rumored that the $2,000,000,000 cinema industry was slated for official arraignment, a Hollywood lobby in Washington fought...
...from a disturbance into a menace. He runs out his stinger to full length and charges the bed in a blind rage. The Vagabond retreats under the covers; he is in no mood to fight. Overhead he hears the motor drone round and round. This little thimbleful of winged poison is not fooling; he doesn't seem to care who he attacks. And there'd certainly be the devil to pay if he ever got under these covers...
Gilbert, according to his chaperon, William A. Ryan '40, halls from Texas, where he used to romp around and he poisonous. Since then he has had his poison machinery, fangs and all, extracted...
...considering five better offers "They say I'm a has-been," scoffed she. "If I weren't laughing so hard, I might cry. . . ." Joan Crawford had just signed a new five-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at a figure reported to be $1,500,000. "Boxoffice poison?" chirruped Actress Crawford...