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DORE SCHARY

I have not left with anything tbut was not rightfully mine.

STRANGE NEW HOME

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By GEORGE | HOGAN

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"There are stül rondual, or

put

11 better. vestigial

woman of that world, I should

to

&

New York Last week they made him HE abdication last walk the plank but they

week end under cushioned his fall with pressure of 61-year- sack of dollars. old Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer production chief The man who Dore Schary marks the end of the second generation of Hollywood monarchy.

The first rulers had been the glove salesmen and the fur importera who claimed the throne when the film business was still part of the fun-fair and the penny Jarcade.

went to

say that Zanuck was the last of the big potentates. By the time got to the top, the age of dictators was almost over.

I

California in 1982 as a £26 **The atars and the In-

a week script writer was dependents have the whip hand given £70,000 and £35,000 now.”

year for the next 10

years.

I suggested that it was tha money men at M-G-M who seemed to be wielding the whip last week.

But the secret that no one whispered in public was **I don' really ward to p

tit. that the utmost speed was Into

When I've necessary because M-G-M's finished reading the book, I throw it away. But I'll tell top-heavy castle was Tipe

this I don't any. I would for A take-over bid by ove planned 10 leave du But I was year-old Adolph Zukor, who powerful interests outside exactly this way.

tank, going to go when my contract

was is now only the nominal

up at the

end of 1957 head of Paramount

"Wimtever happened." Intrigued by these sounds Pictures. And 74-year-old of battle, I called on Dore Samuel Goldwyn, once the

They were men like 83-

the U.S.

the

ALAN BRIEN

reports from

NEW YORK

HE British home of registered letter awaiting middle initial in M-G-M, now a multi-millionaire in- the future is likely to you.....")

Back Inside the house a flick dependent producer. set

the pace for effl-

of a switch lights up the "visa- ciency and automation --

phone" and the person sperking Succeeding to their warm and this within the next at the other end of the tele-but uncomfortable sents decade-if a model house phone can be clearly soen were the young tycoons, opened in Manchester by Horassed Mum with bedraggled who came of age as the Northwestern Electri- hair and with arms covered in

flour and raisins forlornly creative workers inside the city Board is a reliable in- hopes the caller has not bother-studios. dication. There is no real-ed to press her switch. son why it should not be, provided manufacturers go of the days to come, for in the GIGANTIC BATTLE ahead with developing the electronto kitchen

mixing cake ideas and can keep the costa does the work cleanly in a jiffy. BUT the last few months low enough to encourage The cake slips installations.

Maybe this is a falso picture

there is n

machino which

into a spotless oven and is cooked by high

have seen these new Schary at the apartment

With the same honey to spend in 10 years?

Echary for a moment sounded rather setchy.

**SUTC, 匂いで。 Look, M-G+÷M only gave mo what they owed me. It was all In my contract and I have not loft the place' with anything that was not rightfully mine,

"I've never worried about losing a job in my life, Don't put me down as one of theạo krypo-thyroid, born: executivo types. I had no ambition, no the inclination to

climb into 'bos's chain when I

went to Hollywood All the jobs came me out of a blue sky. I tobic them because I thought they would be fun,”

to

The model house is assembled trequency microwaves Im six sovereigns on the cinema on the 31st floor of the WRITING POETRY, in the Electricity Board's Ber- minutes, a steak takes only topple as well. Twentieth luah Hotel Pierre in New

centre and some of the three; and a large turkey less Century Fox, Paramount, York.

vice

door bell.

FRIGHTENING

than an hour.

NO WAITING

Columbia and this week M-G-M, have all lost their greying boy-geniuses,

SAID that I know he spent his Doro (short fox Indoro)

econd leisure at M-G-M.in Schary is a tall, gangling man campaigning for the Democrats, affairs, with a toothy yokel grin and a running community

decturing to schools, writing rosy polished nose which looks as if it has come out of a poetry. Christmas bran tub.

But I would bet that he never I asked him if he would b mooned about vaguely for elaborate on tho short and hours like me,

guarded handout which was all

"That's

gadgets are still on test, Others, however, are already in produc- tion and some are quite start- ling C's Labour-savers. For There is a vegetable sink instanco a television set can be where the uncooked food is

The businessmen in the switched on to enable Mum to cleaned automatically by water see what the children are up to jets. When the meal is over an grey flannel suits once more in any room in the house, what automatic washer-up scr to have their fingers firmly on the dog is doing in the garden, the crockery and there is no the keys of the adding or who is ringing the front special apron for the man of machine.

the house. There is, of course,

nat so. I can.mit. the usual electric washing M-G-M is still the world's he had so far communicated to around and do nothing I put machine, but there is also

the Press. biggest film-making factory

my mind to it and I've always new, insido drier for wishing

the

Schary battle for its day. No more lines in the and

choosen bis words got home to dinner Myito

garden,

like a gn-writer and never became part of the no waiting for the control was probably the carefully

tracing his message in com

smart swimming pool set.” weather to clear,

most gigantic in Holly-plicated Gothic eript. There is also in this house of wood's history.

Finally, I asked the man whọ efficiency—this dream palace

"Hollywood no longer exists" aince 1948 had been Mr Holly that is possible within 10 years The various brokers, he dictated slowly, lying on his wood whether he hack noy

regrets that he was now! that is a burglar coming up the trouble free system of floor bankers and Investment back on the couch with his Mr Schary.

heating - or, “If you prefer It.

on the... glas- At the front door of this you could

trusts who owned the lion's ploughboy feet instal your OwnL

4. generte. topped table,

He repeated to me' the advien share of the M-G-M Lion term 1080 villa is a recorder on oloctrically heated wallpaper,

When I went through that David Selznick gave him which mesIR GES can be left Yes, those young daughters were all united on one in- there 24 years ago it really was when M-G-M first invited alm when the housewife is out who today are just starting dictment that the

like a corrupt medieval court, do take over production. Telegraph boy speaking. There out for tho infant. school are

A college of cardinals intriguing

Rather frightening, maybe, for the young folk will never bo 'sure they are not being watched, but extremely useful when nervous Mum hears the boards on the landing creak at night. "Switch on and see if

stairs, dear,”

com-

only

paisce guard; they had their only last six months. At legat favourites who could do To you'll always be able to say,

Tan the joint..

is a cable awaiting you at the going to show their old Mums pany's profits had steadily in Technicolour, They had their Take the offer, oven, if you Post Office." Of course, we have something in a few years time.decreased since 1950.

encountered the young There is only one unog, a very These financial interests wrong. ruflon who, rings doorbell remote one let us hope Withheld Schary responsible, as and run away. Could be his out their mothers training in son will one day in the near "mading do" in these loom production chief during the future just speak a few words cient days just what will hap Last eight years, for not for power and beat it single man will now and leave the housewife to do pan should the electricity, per- making · enough box-office that comes the running! ("There is a chance, fail,

filnis.

JOHNNY HAZARD

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