Cinema: Help Wanted

Flipping through the blurbs and blarney of Its trade press one day last week, Hollywood stopped to goggle at a full-page ad. Blazoned as an open letter "to the top executives of the motion picture industry," the ad said:

"As most of you know, I have devoted a third of a century to our industry . . . Yet at this time, when the industry demands and requires a fixed habit of production economy, seems I can't get a job . . . Must we always wait until a productive pioneer is found dead in...

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