Variety (Mar 1948)

»1 Literati CtmM. BUkium tmr PM BUnor S.. CWmbel, widow o* Col. route S. C^1«Sl 5r., ot live New, y«ri!: d«p*rtnieat «lore family, and ^^illoiuii duinnun of llw i^ecenlly !^ig,gi«d Women Vor W«JJ*oe or- jjjjHtotkm,' te reparUsd io teave Ignemd negiVliatjanB Monday (221 •rffib Marshal Field for tlie pur- ehase of PM, tbe N. Y. ti*. Uixjer TMrs. Gimliifl's plans, sbfiuld ti»e 4eal £0 tiiroul^ sbe would become editor and pubUsher of the tabloid, fgti tostail Joiieph Queailin Biznik, t^taM aide to Sidney HiUcaara In the founding of the MatHwial CIO iPolilMail Action Cmnmiltee in jgM, as exeeuiUv« editor. Bizuik is a former Hearst and ■iCi^iwen-CoIUer editor and was rxw$ editor of the (Tolunibia ilcoado$isUDg Sj'^teu} at tbe time XisA Hatfltor. X-^ter be was media coordinator f«r Glioer DaVis ja tbe OWL He aiu-ived in New York from California a montii a£o to woric with Mrs. <}limbei on the Wallace campaign. Mijs. Gnenbel was the lonljr wom- an among eight original founders and batters of PM in and lis a Ih^ngiime C9:lend of field. Her plans, it*s said, would be to convert I'M into a pro-Wallaee national tar- culation daily, with the ^r^sent fitaiS iovJlied to stay on under Guild <»iiteaet. The paper would he op- erated as a -fausiness veiriure, bow- ever, ratber tliajn as an adjunct t» tibe Wallace casnpaiffn. A tolal of $1300,000 reportedly would be involved in the transac- tion, with «even persons holding rcconveiied jAiancB, but Mrs. Gim- bel retaining tnajority control. Clintoo MtiKanbon, San Diego newspaper pubUsber, v\as in negio- . fiataon wilh Field lor several wocks to huy PM, but tlie deal went od d W;hen McKimoa was unable lo agdee with tbe Newspaper Ckiiild on tbeems sinder whicJi present I'M staffers woitdd be retained. photos, far tjae beat sports motion Eddie Roarkf «£ the Mempiiis ProBS-Sciinitar, for "consistently outstanding daily feataea oOhjmTis during VHl." Tom StsSs^, of United features, for *"eon!3stently j outstanding columns during 1947." Vance Jolinson, of Uie Pittsburgh Post-Gaxette, as outstaodiiig spoil!; wriiler of the year, Tom Lit^ie, oi' the Nashville Tennesseean, (or "qmsistenily ouistoiding editorial cartoons/' . Daniel F. Claney, of the Spring- field, O., Sun, for "oonsistently out- standing reportimg." A. Vernon Da- vis, of the Hagerslown, Md., Morn- ing Herald, fw bis series on Are hazards. Reg Abhott, of the Man- chester, N. H., Morning Umon, for his series on eoniJitioHS in the Roclnngbain County jails. Univer- sal Newsreel, for best newsreel cov«riage of a newji' event, scenes of the Texas City Bre. since, on aooou&jt of the devalua- 'tion of the Ifrawes, they upped tbeir prices. Strangely ,«Jou^, Time mag has gone to 15 fcancs, (equivalent of while News- week is seJUfflg for 40 francs, about 13c. Result is that Newswoek sales are increasang compared to Time. SCULLYS SCRAPBOOK By Frank Scully ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ - Dale Harntema to Obi Trib Bale Harrtscai, formei: Chicago Sun feature coteuniust who was dropped when the Sua and Times were combined ta -January, will re- sume \ia the CJhicago Tribune April 5. Five-a-wcefe eolinnn will be sup- ported by advertisers, vnSii plugs in diflerent type faces inqeiited be- tween jgaragmphs. neubledays Show Biz Entries Ftock of ^ow hi* boolss (or al- lied thereto) are due from Doublie- day. As in fBhe instance of H, Allen Smith's humor anthology, "Three Smiths to taie Wind," Max Shul- man's trio is likewise being pub- lished' as an omnibus under title of "Max. Shiiilinan''js, Xi«rge Fcon- offlay Si»e,." • ■ 'EUin Berlin's newest novel, "Lace Curtain," is due Juoe 2i. Book is sai^ to be partly Inograph- ical. John 'Tebbel, who did Uie book on tlie Marshall Fields, has'Xieoise j Horace Lorimer and *he Saturday Evening Post" due April 22. Uffian Laufeity, wife of M«t basso James Wolfe, hence knows her subject, treats with flue same vilinosphere in her novel, "Bari- tione," djae July 8. Wewspatfer Ofllee Itomance Whitelaw Reid, editor of the a. Y. Herald Itibune, is about to niaziij^ the daut^er of one of his slaffeiTs. His eogagemcol was .an- nounced on Sunday (21) to Joan Bcasdoa, whose mother is I>arolhy iBcaadoD, editor of the Trib'^ ooce- *«f«elc *Young Modems" page. Vtaaat is nVi years old and a «lndrat at Barnard College. Keid .l»about34. ^ Mr s. Brandon was hired away feom a Pittsburgh paper by Beid- to do Ihe "Young Modems" page. She originated it there. She en- listed itihe aid of Beid's inotiicr, Mi-s. Helen Keid, putelisher of tJhe Trib and a Barnard trustee, in en- rolling her daughter in the college. Miss Brandon soon after that be- came a ftequmt woefcend visitor to ^ fieid estate at J'urchase, T. Marrli^ is set for Jnly. Miss Kami's '^Repeat' "Repeat With Laughter," new novel by Kiizabeth Dewing Kaup <Applctou - Ctntuiy-Kroft; $2.75), is an incredible story of an -actress Who remains .so mintctdously young and bea!ati£al that .she's able to onastiruetaMdle as her own daughter and, at 73, is taloen for 30. It in- eludes two references to Varh^ty, "oae of which is apparently sup- posed to be a typical legit review tuom this papi^. Fcanctne Larri- nuoHre is iteponted intezested in .stairing in « dramatization of the yam., ■, ■ TSie araihoness, who's written several previoMS novels, is a former slock actress and once condticted a radio series. She's the mother of legit actress Elicabeth Dewing. Hobe. Stwn 'Plays' Oont Play "The GcrtiTHJe Stein JlESt Bead- and Three Plays" <Hioughton Scre\N^ll Center, March 21. .Tust what I feared would happen, has. jPress agents for psychlatristt have begun patching. One of them wqo*:rs if his tjiient couldn't get a break on aecount he is curing Hollywood's psychoses with music. He Ihiiew some high-class namCs around as amoiiig the patients of his couch consultant. ■ , I tr)ld hiasi I'd be glad lo if he didn't fear in turn that Pctrilio's at- tentitHj-callers would spot that here was a soMirce ot iiiu;$icai app^ecia- tion which was not paying oil'. He rnuUed tills one over for a Baoment, then said he guessed I was right. HoUj'wood is full of peculiar cross-moljvations, and this one, where everybody wants publicity without loss of privacy, is a common psycho- sis. That's why stars use every device to get tlieir names in print and then so to fantastic lengths to keep tbeii- names out of telej^one books. s in turn has created an entinely new industry. Private addresses, mad phone numbers. t>rtaln stars cliange (jheir numbers once a" njontii. This kecips tlie number-tapptTs in business furnishing the new numbers. It's jnuch like the iprofit derived from razorblades, with the rawr itself thrown an as a giveaway. Tlie phone company's rwtine is: "The subscriber jdianged his nuduber and has instiucted us not to give out the new number." This infuriates tbe caUer, foicing him into the black market for it. Ai'ways free 'with advite, I'have a l*e1ter way, Tliat is tiO put the plionc in a relative's maiden name and permit it and tlie address to be listed as such. Tlicre is one dofect in this however. If the caller merely ask.s for the telephone number at 2071 Grace avenue he will get you. But few are smart enough to imakc that simple approach. . Of course, all of this does not protect you from the direct ajjproach of the U. S. mails, jh .pixxjess-sci-^'ei- or a Western Union "boy."' (Only the other night I was .setting O'ut for a iiound of unreginiented igairty uith BiU Cunningham, Uic Boston strong boy; Budy Vallee, tlie half-opened eyes Maine's potato crop, and J. P. MjcG!v<oy, Ihe paun- crcatic juicer of Reader's Digest, -vrhen a oouilcr handed me a note ivom the diiKctMr «f *tt and culture in Chicago. It fumed out to be no friendly exdianee between free {peoples, but an ultiroatoin. The com- 3iiunil-i2iie demanded: - IF YOU DONT OONTmVE THAT PSYCHIATRIC HANDBOOK Mifflin, ?3>), believed to be Ite last: ^''.^^S^.^^^Ji^ Ballyho* Hack iMl IHibUcations brought back a touch of the thi'Tsty 'Ms this vjeck -willn the reappearance on *«wssftaHds «« Ballyhoo. Format «f the slick-paper tnag is much the as before, with its sligia'ly- *cniM»d .sejc parodied iSas, car- wow and takeout ma. olher mags. Elmer in fact, is sUMr the toiture attraction. ItH sell lor Headliners' Awards The National Headliners' Club, TOicfe wiU bold its 15th annual *»llc ])«« June 18-20, announced «M Friday (19,) winners of 20 awardb and one Ironorable inen- uon after a panel of 11 judges had Jiiade their selections the weekend Before. Medal winners .included: Daniel Be Lmce, of the AP, for consistemt- ntelson's Anthology H. William Fitclson picked a dozen of the Theatre Guild's i-adio productions' for this'book, "Thea- tre Guild on the Air," Rinehai-t; $3 and his selections couldn't be better to diow the student writer and general public that a great deal of original %riting is done by the author of a radio play when translating the story for the ak. Such standards as ".Strange In- terlude," "The Guardsman," "Sil- ver Cord," "On Borrowed Time," "Ah Wilderness," "Three Men on a iH-o r s e ,'' "Paymnent Deferred," "Dead End." "They iCnew What They Wanted," 11 Renaeniber Mama'" and -"The Show Off" are included in this anthology. The Guild's piesentations of these plays on the air have received fine oomment fTom nearly all the radio critics. Especially fiood is the comment made by each of tlhe radio adapters, telling about tboir particular pirobilems in tran.spo.sing the origliHd play for the rjidio. It is a book 'that is not only in- teresting reading tout very infor- mative lo ithe student writer of any medium. It gives you am idea of tlie tiechnique employed in ■tnansposinig a play to radio .form by topnotch writers. A must for any writer's iefei«nee or reading shelf. ; ' Jbc Lowrie, Jr, book by the late exponent of im pressionistic lit'oatnre, is supposed to be a "juvenile for adults." It's a slim volume (83 pages) and the "Plays" run only four, none and 13 pages, respectively. None of the "Plays" is really for sla,ge jtireseMtation, though they I or the "Reader"), might be suit-| abile monoiog maleirial for a Sid i Caeser, who's pretty hasHly with doubletalk, too. CANCEL MY SUBSdOPTlOXr TO FUND. CHATTSai 1 iDale Kramer is writing a biog «[ Heywood Bronn for psafolication bv A. A. Wyn. it's not yet titled. "Allegro," the Richard Biodgers- Oscar Hamiserstein, 2d, musical, 'wiil be published April 5 by Knopf. Sleanor ^bert Pariser and Jack Star have formed an authors agency to handle SdSon and comtaercial ■writing. "Supplement Two: The Ameri- can Language," the iBaal volume in ii. L. Mencken's .series,' will be published April 5 by Knopf. Gov. Earl Wanren of California is wriiing a piece on tine inotiion picture industry for Che anniversary issue lof 'Screen Writer, SWG mag. Dwight- Perrin, exec ed of Syra- cuse (N. Y.) Uerald-Joumal, re- tuimod this week after recuper- I ating in Bermuda from long illness ' siege. Songsniith -Imold Shaw controls "Love Is -a Four-iictter Word," by April Tayha- (mom-dfrplume) which Beechhurst Fiess is pub- lishing. Evelyn Waugh's new-novel, 'Tl*e Loved One," is based on a satirical yarn he wrote for Life mag, about a Hollywo(8d cemetery. It's slated t'oi- publication in August. William Saney, executive editor of Binehart, oftf to Europe on the Queen Elitabeth March 27, with England, France, Italy and the niiaois' Beporter Safecnards 111 i n Q i s state representative Charles 11. Weber is drafting a bill to protect Illinois reporters f rom | Lowiands as his itinerary- chiefly I on publi.shing business ha™g to ■ £^^3^^^^ legal action for failure to i-cveaJ a news source. Hill will be intro- duced at next ^session of the legis- lature. Weber, publisher of a Oliicago cotTjmunity paper, said the pro- po.sSed legislation is sindlar to that under ctmsideration in New York. States tliat already grant reper- torial immunity are Alabama. Ari- zona, Indiiuia, Kentucky, Maryland, It .was signed: ASHTON STEVENS. I had Ijoiied I could coibie and go on that labor of love as I p!ea.sed. But here 'was an order to drop the pursuit of happiness and sot to ■work on raoipe viieseaivh—^«r else. There -was mone to the uttinialuni. but, it was practically a deaiand th'dt we di.scl«»se our toprdrawer-secrets. "Confidentially," added the dean of American culture, "What do you have lo have wi Yatxetv to gel Utcrature in it? I mean what do you have to have?"' . Once Howard Stiikling, feeding ais L. B. Mayer's pet diicken soup in tlic M-G-M commis.saiy. asked 3f we had seen a certain picture. "No," said Little AlitMC in Blunderltind, "^e must be on your B-li.st, because we didn't get invited to that one." The director of public relations stopped all dining. In measured tones he anraoiunced: ■■•We liawe no B list." Well in psychiatry we have. Hejie it is. Mr. Stevens: Rahcwftt TesA. Measures mental deterioration. Naated after a pro- ducer named Babcock who began as a vieepresident in charge n( pro- duction and ended as a production in charge -of viccpresidsnts. Babinski Sisra. Indicates a lesion involving the pyramidal tract. Yes-men who make a tetter O of lihumb and first finger when their producer jjuinif ests pleasure over a scene he himself iiomembered fvom another picture and wrote an th<e jscript. Bar«giwsis. lioss of power to edsinate weights. Stars gone fat and insisting on being photographed with slendei-izing leaises. Theatre managers who pad grosses for publication. Barosnotas. Ability to recognize wcis'ht. Handicappers Syndrome. Housewives' who can spot a butcher's Juirad on the .scales. Baryyhonia. Difficulty in emitting words. Mike fright Harpo. Marxism. Bayle's Disease. Horse-owners »*io can't pay (their hay Wlte. Beilbun, BeHhhAem Bosal hospital, LAndon. iMadbouse. ■ VmmAei in 1547. Transfemed to Hollywood when sound <caKie' to pidntet In lim. ' . . , B^viorist. A psychologist who has no couch, who behaves himself. Bell's Disease. Acute delirious mania. Producers who ■scream "Get me that numbskull so-and-so, and if the New York call comes in cut Mm iinmedialely." Directors wbo cry "Well, that take* hit the bell!" Esdiibitors wbo believe any picture with "^Beir an the title will hit it. Bell's IParalysis. Fadal affection of the ^eventii nerve of dunectors, piNsducei^ and eicbibitots on learning their "Bell" pkrture i£ a tSop. Benis^n Stupor. Manic deprcssives who say they •will never make iiwotiher adult picJjure if this one jKincatoes. Beiiien. Favorable to rocwery. People who cant cosmt to 10. , Benien Tresdd, Preoccupation with adult intere^. Pei^fe who read Aiquina.s in projection rooms. Bemrenter Test. A "yes" or "no" test. Popular with legislative committees who eu'vy the Hooper rating of the radio program, "Mr. Paris Biz IVorsens Controversy between French piiess mad govemnaent as to how nwich space former could print and what price to charge has been set- lied by the goveraanent in giving the papers the option of going on printing on four sides for tiive francs la little under 2c.) or print- ing six sitles (three pages) 'foi- eight frantj! (less than 3r.). To date the publistjers have taken no action and papers are still appearing in the old format. Paris newspaper business is get- ting worse and worse. 'Unere are talc too jnany daffies and maiga- eines, and the sales off American mags have dmpped (soiii^erabily w.OBlstainding foreign news report-New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsyl- ser ,*Bg based on his coverage of the vania. JjSS*^ situation to Europe during . '^T. AP news features, for "de- velopment of pictorial Sournalism" TO the creation oC "Picture Show." Washington Post for '"oulsland- •mg public service *iy a newspaper" t ui iits presentation of an explana- Oon ©f iiie Marshall Plan. Vrtwdon Paiics and Alifred Ivay, M the San Francisco Chronicle, for witstanding domestic" news ,re- SW'tMig,'' Jack-Vincent, of line Day- ton, O., Herald, for an "outsland- ?^ domestic news series ' on .stato *wpitai coniUlions in Ohio. Bob JriUnaa, of the New York Mirror, • *«hra iihoito, "List Mile." .JrtHal Calveirt, of the ^ An«eles ™s. ««r his photo. '"Beach »ra«- cigs. Jerry, «I J^xhik news- do with accumtflated wai'tune niat- j Bestiality. Script writers who marry cuUes. . .. . Beta Test Iritelligence tost devised lor producers who can't read Ma,|. Fred May, lormer Missoi.n | j^_st Syndj-ome. " scA-Jbe, an-dval in lokyo to re- j ^^^y Giant cell in motor area of cortex. Pjsesent in stage place Ca.pt. Glenn J^P as chief | ^^^^1,6,^ especially ones who keep saying, "Cobm! now, Mofeesr'knows at Gonenal MacArthnr's Press, g^^^., ' ' Branch, Public Inl'oimation Office. ! jj^psvchic. The next cycle ^ pictuipes to foMow .'Sstraight'* Trump, former Vabiety corre-I • ' spondent, is retnanlng to the States lor discharge allter six years of The Authors Guild has begun operation of its assessment-based- on-earnings plan and members were circularized last week with instmctions in oomputmg assess- anents and to sdeot one of three methods of payment. The assess- mente were approved la^ fall by the membership. Ezra Goodman headed Coast- ward yesterday fTues.) for hack- ground on a series of mag articles j on .lohn Huston, CharUe Feldman. I Paul Muntz, B. Reeves Eason and i trade department of Knofa, has others. He has a vam on Jeriy ' joined the Macrae-Smith editorial ibiiograpliies. Blepharospasm. Involwuatory blinking «C ey^ds. Aiudieaoes who cry just becaufie there'* glycerin on the screen and Baiibara Stanwyck walks into it wearing a Willkie button. Bourdon'^ Test, For alertness. Subject is told to cross out every ffl and 1) on a printed page. Avoids b's for fear of being typed. Brachyoepha3ou.s. Broadheaded. Not to be confused 'with broad-' minded, or other anima. . ■ ■ ' Bradykinctac. Slow moventcnbs. Fpreign ^}it&^gss. idea of feelings too deep for espression. Bradylalia. Slow speech due to brain lesion. Cojniaon to directors .suH'ering from Bradyldneticism. Boliaiia, Morbid increase, of appetite. Trade nubs who ane sure they're getting ulcers apd inust -store up fat against the dte^ias days ahead. ■ Wald .in the May issue of Harper s, and Coronet's July issue will tca- ture an article .titled "Arc the Movies A Menace?" Helen Hotter, formerly assistani to Alfred A. Knopf, Jr., to the .sta'JX, specializing on juvenile books. Oharies A. Hughes, editor and publisher of DAC News, official monthly of the Detroit Athletic Club, out of the Fold hospitol fwl- lowing an op, but will i«cup 3-4 weeks at home. ■ ■ With its issue of last November, when it began using a pictorial icover. the Atjantic aM»nthi^ circu- liation jumped approxiaiaitoly 36,- 500, to a total «£ il8fi.717. Its news- stand sales lust alMoat dmdied.