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...outside pictures. When Boss Zanuck, who sometimes begins to believe his own press-agents, grows overambitious for Betty, she recalls him to reality. "Betty," he told her excitedly in 1945, "you're going to get the break of your life. I want you to play Sophie in The Razor's Edge." Betty knew that it was a part for an actress (it won Anne Baxter an Oscar) and not for her. She coolly refused it. "People would expect me to end up as a mermaid and rise with seaweed in my hair," she said, "and that wouldn...
Eversharp, Inc. got set for a play in pressagentry: it sent George Bernard Shaw a Schick razor. Wrote Eversharp's Sales Manager Thomas L. Kennedy.: "I am informed that you have expressed the desire ... to remove your beard ... If you must use any razor, I trust it will be none but mine...
Shaw fielded the ball. Last week Eversharp got one of his famed penny postcards with the reply: "I have never shaved, never possessed a razor (yours has not yet arrived) and have no intention of removing my beard, though it is kept within bounds by an occasional trimming with scissors. If my example is followed, Eversharp will have to concentrate on electric clippers...
...only a bit more than five times earnings. Many another stock, with years of steady dividends behind it, is paying anywhere from 7% to 11% a year in dividends (most bonds are paying only 3 to 4%). Samples: Westinghouse Air Brake, Standard Brands, Underwood Corp., American Safety Razor Corp., Cluett, Peabody...
...weird glimpse of real black magic. Everett Sloane, as Rita's lame and jealous husband, crawls through the picture as horribly as a spider; and Glenn Anders, as a man who madly plots his own murder, has developed a soundless laugh as chilling as a razor's edge scraped across plate glass. Orson has done a capable job with his brogue, a flashy one with the camera. But not all of his magic works. He makes a blonde out of his onetime wife, redhead Rita Hayworth, but not an actress...