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Letters, Feb. 16, 1931

Flash Extinguished

Sirs:

In your Jan. 26 issue appeared a photograph of "Mrs. Hoover" and "Secretary Hoover' with a news item to the effect that these characterizations would appear in our forthcoming picture Up for Murder (title may be changed). I wish to inform you that this "flash" never got beyond the projection-room stage at which time it was ordered destroyed by our executives who did not consider it in keeping with the policy of this corporation to use it as a bit of atmosphere. The news item also states that the story was...

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