Cinema: Shorts: Feb. 20, 1939

¶ Producer Gabriel Pascal last year astonished the cinema industry by screening the first of a series of Bernard Shaw's plays, whence all but him had fled. Last week, en route from Hollywood to London to start work on The Doctor's Dilemma, he stopped off in Manhattan long enough to announce his future plans: a repertory company to make two Shaw pictures a year and, in 1940, a film biography of Amelia Earhart, to be made with the assistance of her husband, George Palmer Putnam, and a score by Conductor Leopold Stokowski after the...

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