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Woman of the Year(Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) was made to order for bold Katharine Hepburn. She saw to it that it was: she helped edit the script (authored by two comparatively unknown Hollywood-sprites: Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin) sold it to Metro for an unprecedented $100.000, demanded and got her own leading man (Spencer Tracy) and (from a rival studio) her favorite director (George Stevens...
...high regard for her favorite director is well founded-and mutual. He is one of the best in the business, and he brought his admirer back from obscurity seven years ago with Alice Adams. That picture, his first try at an A production, also made his name. The script was bad, and he made up many of the scenes himself. The love scenes were the first he had ever directed...
...explained by officials that registration is a slow process, taking in most cases about 12 minutes, because the cards have to be filled out with absolute accuracy and have to be printed, not written in script. Each man must sign up under the individual supervision of a registrar. In addition, many of the registrants didn't know what answers to give to the various questions, and entered into long discussions concerning particular problems...
George, or Georgianna, as the case may be, was accompanied by a letter obviously written in Radcliffe script, in which the renegade mother stated that she had decided to abandon her columba to the CRIMSON as "a candidate to usurp the power of the infamous Ibis...
...telegram from the office of the Coordinator of Information (Colonel William J. Donovan): "General MacArthur and Brig. Gen. Akin over private circuit have wired us specifically asking for you to broadcast to the men in the Philippines at Bataan Peninsula" -by short wave-"embracing, if possible, in the script that you hope the boys gallantly fighting are listening. . . . You might, if the policy O.K., the sponsor and agency permit, dedicate one of your songs to the soldiers...