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...month season. In 1936, Actors Equity Association divided professional summer theatres into Classes A & B, which are the only summer theatres in which Equity members may perform. Class A companies, of which there were 35 last year, 62 this, must have a nucleus of six Equity members at $40-a-week minimum and have the exclusive right to produce old or new plays. Class B calls for the same number of Equity members, is restricted to old plays only. This year's silo circuit is scheduling more plays and stars than appear in an average eight months' season...
...simmered: "At this writing your correspondent has not yet had time to visit any of the Woolworth 5-and-10? stores to observe the rejoicing. . . . It was pretty hard to keep the girls within bounds last winter when Woolworth's own little Babbie, the darling of the $10-a-week personnel, married the dream prince from Russia in a love match as pure as anything in the matrimonial record of the Goulds...
...solemn sap, scrawny, cartoon-faced Homer Zigler was a 23-year-old, $1-a-week cub reporter on a Buffalo newspaper when he decided to become a novelist. But first, said Homer, "to the purpose of preparing myself for that career," he would keep a journal. "The Great American Novel-" is the journal-a satire that starts off by tagging after Ring Lardner, turns off on an oily road marked Irony-&-Pity, skids into caricature, and comes to a happy halt as the June choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club-as did Author Davis' first novel...
...extraordinary as the uproar they helped promote. One was Publisher Frank Gannett, who backed up his fulminations against the bill throughout his chain of upstate New York papers with something called the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government to lobby against the bill under directions of a $400-a-week propagandist named Dr. Edward Rumely. The other was famed Father Charles E. Coughlin who emerged from his retirement to make two radio speeches on the subject. Coughlin speeches and Gannett literature produced a record-breaking flood of 333,000 telegrams to Senators and Congressmen. Their notion that Roosevelt was really...
...claws into. Last week Bette took a disdainful look at the script of Author Faith Baldwin's Comet Over Broadway, said it reminded her of weak tea, flatly refused to play in it.*Promptly her studio, Warner Bros., suspended her, cut off her $3,500-a-week salary for the six weeks it may take to find her another picture. Commented Bette, whose rebellion against Warners nearly two years ago wound up in the British courts: "I feel we will have legal trouble...