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Last month in Hollywood RKO Production Head Sam Briskin sent to Warner Brothers' Producer Sam Bischoff an extra player who posed as a financier, went through the motions of making a deal to buy Producer Bischoff's pet electric razor business. Last week Producer Bischoff sent to Production Head Briskin Extra Players Pat Daly, Frank Jaquet, Bill Teelaak who posed as U. S. Congressmen Martin of Mass., King of Utah, Tydings of Maryland; sent with them a Warner Brothers cameraman who posed as a newspaper photographer. Production Head Briskin posed with the three spurious Congressmen (see cut), blushed...
Music for Madame (RKO Radio). Nino Martini's tenor insufficiently disguises a weak-backed melofarce...
...share, cutting the play manager's accordingly. Hollywood, accustomed to making the manager a dummy figure and further controlling play property destinies by entering into noncompetitive bidding accords with other studios, promptly stopped backing plays. Simultaneously seven studios (Warner Bros., Universal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Twentieth Century-Fox, Paramount, RKO-Radio, Columbia) set up the Bureau of New Plays, with canny Theresa Helburn (see p. 55) at the helm, offered advances on royalties, fellowships; hoped to corner young talent. Now in its second year, the Bureau has paid awards, but has so far found no play worth producing...
...after his afternoon performance at the RKO-Boston on Saturday, but down in the dressing room five of his boys were playing something soft and sweet on their saxophones. Fats grinned with pride and said that this was one of his latest compositions, "Jealous of Me." In a corner, writing on a dressing table, sat Dick Donaldson, arranger for the Waller orchestrations, writing notes by the dozens...
...Honey-suckle Rose." "Whoa-boy," yelled Fats, "the joint is jumpin'." He explained this expression by saying that it meant a Harlem night spot crammed with well-liquored joy-seekers, with a swing band jammin' it. He further explained that the Big Apple, which he is featuring on the RKO-Boston stage with his band, originated not in the South, but right in the Savoy ballroom in New York City...