Cinema: Amicable Settlement

In an industry to which personal vanity, professional jealousy and creative carte blanche are as indispensable as they are to the cinema, upheavals in personnel are naturally more sudden, more dramatic, and more painful than elsewhere. Hollywood long ago chose "amicable settlement" as an apt phrase to describe the results, whatever these may be, of all such events. Two months ago when Producers Darryl Zanuck and Joseph Schenck took their lively Twentieth Century Pictures away from United Artists to merge with Fox, where Winfield Sheehan has been vice president in charge of production...

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