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...Dream Too Much (RKO) is an operatic formula picture, cut to fit the coloratura voice, the small, neat form, the pretty face and the sharp French accent of Lily Pons. The operatic basis for its plot is the one which enables Miss Pons to carol Caro Nome from Rigoletto to her provincial music teacher, to make a big splash in Paris, to exhibit her navel in Hindu undress as she negotiates the spectacular Bell Song from Lakmé. Introducing a second formula, Henry Fonda, a U. S. musician who thinks he can compose opera, picks up Miss Pons, performs...
Married- Margalo Gillmore, 35, actress (Flowers of the Forest, The Barretts of Wimpole Street), daughter of President Frank Gillmore of the Actors' Equity Association; and Robert F. Ross, 35, director (On Stage, The Distant Shore) ; in Manhattan. Acquitted. Warner Brothers, Paramount and RKO, seven of their subsidiaries and five major executives: of a charge of having violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Law by withholding their films from three St. Louis cinemansions (TIME, Oct. 14); by a Federal court jury; in St. Louis. The case was regarded as a prime test of the legality of the U. S. cinema distributing...
...Three Musketeers (RKO...
...Hollywood, RKO film studios refused the demand of the Central Casting Bureau that Indian extras who are called on to grunt like Indians be paid, not at the $7.50 daily rate of a silent extra, but at the $25 rate of a speaking extra...
...Sylvia Scarlett in which Miss Hepburn was required to save the Princess from a raging sea. Cinemactress Hepburn rescued Princess Paley according to the script but not until she had been so severely buffeted about by waves that she herself had to be given emergency treatment by coworkers. Shrewd RKO cameramen quickly photographed the scene. RKO publicists were pleased when news agencies gave out photographs of fat Director George Cukor bringing Miss Hepburn a tumbler of whiskey...