Ed Sullivan's Shorts and Other Movie News
According to Variety, newspaper columnist and show biz impresario Ed Sullivan would be co-producing movie shorts featuring top names and up-and-coming talent from Broadway, radio and night clubs. These shorts would serve as interactive screen tests with the movie-going public deciding who has the stuff to be a Hollywood star. Sullivan would serve as emcee.
"So Goes My Love," starring Myrna Loy and Don Ameche, had its world premiere on a Pan American Clipper flight from New York to Shannon, Ireland, in front of 34 passengers. The airline announced that all of its trans-Atlantic flights soon would be equipped to show movies.
True Thompson of Dallas was joining with Jack and Bert Goldberg of New York to produce films for the Negro market.
The eight major studios had agreed in principal to the demand by the American Federation of Musicians that films with music be barred from the emerging medium of television. The AFM was a highly aggressive union at the time that effectively shut down the recording industry for several years in a labor dispute. Congress had passed a law recently banning the AFM from making featherbedding demands in the recording industry. Ironically the union's success in winning royalty payments for band members helped kill the big bands. The union now had moved its attention to Hollywood.