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Columbia and 20th-Fox Buy<br />
Two Story Properties Each<br />
Once listed as a title for a Wald-Krasna<br />
production at RKO Radio before the W-K<br />
unit was dissolved and Jerry Wald packed up<br />
and moved over to Columbia as a vice-president<br />
and executive producer, "The Long Grey<br />
Line" has been dusted off as the tag for a new<br />
Columbia acquisitions, "Bringing Up the<br />
Brass," an autobiography by Marty Maher,<br />
athletic instructor at West Point. The yarn,<br />
for which President-Elect Dwight D. Eisenhower<br />
wrote the foreword, will be produced in<br />
Technicolor by Robert Arthur in the early<br />
summer of 1953, and a script writer will be<br />
dispatched to the military institute in the<br />
near future to gather material for the screenplay.<br />
Also purchased, for distribution through<br />
Columbia, was "Sunset Rim," a western novel<br />
by Curtis Bishop, picked up by the Scott-<br />
Brown unit. It will star Randolph Scott and<br />
will be produced by Harry Joe Brown, who<br />
booked John Meredyth Lucas to develop the<br />
script . . . Twentieth Century-Fox, matching<br />
Columbia's pace, also bought two properties.<br />
"Be Prepared," the story of a children-hating<br />
man forced to take over as Scoutmaster of a<br />
Boy Scout troop, sounds—although no catting<br />
has officially been set—as if it were made to<br />
order for Clifton Webb; a best-.seller by Rice<br />
E. Cochrane, it has been assigned to Producer<br />
Leonard Gold.stein. Also acquired by<br />
the Westwood studio was "The Girl With<br />
Black Glasses," an original by Walter Reisch<br />
with a Metropolitan Opera background. It<br />
goes on Charles Brackett's production slate<br />
... To MGM went the film rights to "The<br />
Tea House of the August Moon," a novel by<br />
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