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...story centers around 9-year-old Stinky and his pet dancing caterpillar, Curley. Jerry Flynn, a washed-up producer, sees a gold mine in Curley and sets out to exploit him as the phenomenon of the century. Stinky, quito naturally, will not part with his pot, and Flynn spends three reels trying to make the worm a national figure without breaking the boy's heart. Newspaper headlines scream the daily intimacies of Curley's life. School children wear Curley sweaters. And everyone stops worrying about the war for a minute to sit back dreamily and think about the charming fairy...
More For Spyros. For his explosive energy, Twentieth Century pays Spyros $254,000 a year. From National Theaters Corp., which has been a Twentieth Century subsidiary for a year, Charlie collects $315,000. From Skouras Theaters the three brothers collect $52,000 each. Their salaries go into a common pot. From it Spyros and Charlie take 37½% , George...
...Paramount Pictures, Inc. that set the pot boiling furiously. Paramount proposed to stockholders, for a vote on June 20, that Paramount should sell $2,000,000 worth of promissory notes to its egg-pated $141,000-a-year president, Barney Balaban, 56, also head of Chicago's Balaban & Katz. The notes would carry 2¼% interest, payable in seven years. During that time, President Balaban would be permitted to convert a fourth of the notes a year into Paramount common stock at a fixed price of $25 a share, as long as he remained with the company. Thus...
...joke when I say that TIME deserves worthy mention for the excellent job it is doing in salvaging the best from the terrestrial, the aquatic, the aerial, and the arboreal boiling pot of world news. TIME also deserves much credit for fostering a democratic exchange of ideas at a period when broad and tolerant ideas apparently seem taboo. But still greater praise should be given TIME for maintaining a sense of humor in reporting matters of utmost concern and gravity, for in times like these God himself must surely possess a sense of humor in order to endure some...
...circled to see what would happen. As they had reckoned, nothing much did. An enemy-held tree burst into brief flame, a pillar of smoke soared all of three feet into the air. The armada wheeled, made for home at 70 miles an hour, while bored Germans took desultory pot shots at them...