Cinema: Zanuck's Start

When, three months ago, dynamic little Darryl Francis Zanuck and his partner, Joseph M. Schenck, merged their flourishing Twentieth Century Pictures with huge, debt-laden Fox Film, Hollywood had its doubts as to what the result would be. Would Zanuck, struggling to prop up the sagging bulk, suffocate beneath it? Or would he bring it back to life? Last week, with one picture (Metropolitan) released (TIME, Oct. 28), Producer Zanuck showed three more products of his peculiar art. Hollywood scanned them for answers to its questions. The pictures:

Show Them No Mercy. When Zanuck...

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