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'll- mr '2. 1 a tv i -T wi 0 ft Virginiin Wrigli Afrn III THE VEST.ii the -I Cl THE GUILT JOHN: rmiE-RosEii OAI1 (Continued from Page 25) answered, and In a mo itb ha had mattered enough of the language to get an acting Job. For the next aeven yeara Das-ain acted with the Yiddiah theater, but working there with Benno Schneider (the director now coaching at 20th Century-Fox). Daaain. knew he wanted eventually to direct Ilia opportunity came when producer Martin Gabel got hold of Medicine Show." Jules Daaain made hia Broadway debut aa director of that blast at the medical profession, and Imme- diately was signed to a screen contract by RKO.

-His first six months on the lot he sat around as an "observer. Chiefly, he observed the work of Hitchcock, and the quick changes of regimes up front When one regime went out at the end of six months Daasin almost went with It A kindly word gave him a stay of trfo more months, then another regime came in and he went out, never having directed a picture. By that time Metro decided to give him a teat with a shyt subject The film be made was "The Tell Tale Heart a work of sufficient merit to give the director a feature contract For the next five years Dasain remained at MGM, and worked on the outside for the lab directing hospital units and camp shows during the war, aa well as regular Lab productions. Now that he is a free agent (with-the only bind a three picture deal with Mark Hellinger with, no time limit) Jules Das-sin says he would like to write a play about the $500 a week writer who promises him serf if he ever can afford It, to refuse to compromise. He would trace the writer through his advancement the $2000 a week class, when he decides the time turn over his new leaf Is when he gets to be a producer.

Then there's the producer stage when be justifies the trivia he is making on the grounds that he has to cushion himself for the time when honesty may not pay off. And on and on' through the executive producer stage and more rationalizations. Thats Dassin's picturesque Bttlfe view of "what's wrong with Hollywood. That and our lack of understanding of the rest of the world. Where Eric hnston advises producers to "ell America Bassin thinks it might be a good idea to sell "one world not one nationalism versus another.

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