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> Withdrawing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs from circulation in the U. S., Walt Disney announced that in the 16 months since its release it had grossed $6,740,000, $1,740,000 more than the previous box-office record established by Al Jolson (see below) in his early part-talkie, The Singing Fool. Snow White earned back its $1,700,000 cost in four months.

> On a goodwill tour for his firm's Wuthering Heights, Vice President James Roosevelt of Samuel Goldwyn Productions gave British cinemagnates a reception at Claridge's, journeyed to meet the Mayor and master cutler of Sheffield, lunched Emily Bronte's first cousin once removed, Mrs. Charlotte Bronte Branwell,*at the Carlton, impressed the Daily Mail's critic, Seton Margrave, as "a distinguished drummer." Proceeding to Wuthering Heights'?, Paris premiere at the Biarritz Theatre, which was also attended by U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet and the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, Cinemagnate Roosevelt delivered a "fireside chat," plugging Wuthering Heights over Paris radio station PTT.

>Cinema Cowboy William S. Hart, 66, who has been prosperously ranching since his last picture, Tumbleweeds, flopped in 1925, turned down a handsome offer from Republic Productions to star in two pictures costing not less than $250,000 apiece.

*Another luncheon guest was Mrs. C. M. Edgerley, honorary secretary of the Bronte Society. Asked if she liked Mr. Goldwyn's film, Secretary Edgerley said she had not seen it, remarked: "Anyhow, I do not like the novel."

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