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Reason for Mr. Paley's perturbation was that the Federal Communications Commission (chairman: Frank McNinch, Franklin Roosevelt's "Trouble Shooter") began last week the investigation of radio which broadcasters have expected ever since Mae West's "script tease" in December. In charge of a committee to look into charges of monopoly was Paul Walker, a man whose name few people knew before he presented a report on American Tel. & Tel. last fortnight...
What stormy Cinemactress Bette Davis likes better than anything else are cinema roles she can get her claws into. Last week Bette took a disdainful look at the script of Author Faith Baldwin's Comet Over Broadway, said it reminded her of weak tea, flatly refused to play in it.*Promptly her studio, Warner Bros., suspended her, cut off her $3,500-a-week salary for the six weeks it may take to find her another picture. Commented Bette, whose rebellion against Warners nearly two years ago wound up in the British courts: "I feel we will have legal...
Material from the actual script of the show having been banned because of its "political nature" the broadcast will consist of several specially prepared skits as well as the first public rendition of the hit songs. Tunes to be played are "Livin' the Life" by Alan J. Lerner '40, "Look Before You Leap" by Stanley Miller '38, and "I'm Sorry but We'll Have to Say Goodby" and "Night Song" by Benjamin Welles...
...labored, hundreds of Vassar girls were put on parade, whole regiments of West Point cadets marched and countermarched, millions of peasants danced in the streets, and out of it all came "Rosalie," perhaps the most repulsive musical mouse to escape from Hollywood in some time. Nelson Eddy has a script that calls for romantic acting, but wisely abandons this after the first ten minutes and does nothing from then on but sing "In The Still of the Night" and murmer "I love you" in sort of a weak whisper. Eleanor Powell is well cast, because she is also unable...
Pardon scratchy script-vessel is rolling...