FRIDAY

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 32, 20 January 1939, Page 13

FRIDAY

just one of those days which, if.every. day was. like ‘it, would make Jack a very dull boy. Came across an article which shows why film magnates have so many headaches and furrowed brows. The new Fox film,

**Suez,’’? shows the builder of the eanal, Ferdinand de Iliesseps as a young man of twentythree, smooth-cheeked, handsome and romantic... in other words, Tyrone Power to you, me and a. few million other fans;

Actually, when de Lesseps began to build the eanal, he was a dignified widower of 54 with five sons. Five days after

the canal was finished in 1869, de Lesseps married again and had six more sons ‘and six daughters. Of the seventeen de "Lesseps offsprings, seven were still alive a few weeks ago. When one of them saw the filn in: London he ealled a meeting of the family in Paris to decide whether to sue Fox. Mindful of the 900,000 dollars damages that the Princess Irina Youssoupov had | got from M-G-M for a libel in ‘*Rasputin,’’? Fox offered to show *‘Suez’’ to the entire de Lesseps family before the film was released in France. The de Lesseps, twenty-cight of them, saw the film, suggested some minor changes ‘which Fox were willing to make, and everybody was happy.