Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soon the S. P. was transporting Fanchon & Marco's show up and down the west coast, then it was going all over the U. S.-52 units a year. For the young Wolfs had had a bright idea. Small cinema houses wanted to stage shows but could not afford them. Fanchon & Marco offered units at a reasonable price, equipped them and rehearsed them in Hollywood, sent them out complete with costumes, scenery and songs. Their studio on Sunset Boulevard near Western became a factory for mass production of 15-minute shows. They needed bright youngsters who would work cheap...
...Mauchs were to be baseball players, transport pilots, acrobats, firemen, G-Men. Both intend to go to college. Since even if Warners does not give them new contracts, options on their old one will give them each $900 a week by 1938, they should be able to afford it. Last fortnight the Mauchs were in New York for a holiday. This week they were back in Hollywood, ready to start work on the next Mauch picture-probably an adaptation of Hugh Walpole's book, A Prayer...
...Boxes on the grand tier cost anywhere from $550 to $2.750 for the season. Those who cannot afford the Covent Garden productions will have their own Coronation season of operas at Sadler's Wells Theatre in North London. These will be sung in English, include Vaughan Williams' Hugh the Drover and Gertrude Stein's first ballet, The Wedding Bouquet...
...train travelers who dislike horizontal undressing in a berth but cannot afford a drawing room or compartment, Pullman Co. last week had an announcement. Now abuilding, in new equipment for the New York Central's 20th Century Limited, the Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited, the North Western, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific streamliners and the Santa Fe's Chief, is a new Pullman creation-the "roomette." Occupying a little over the space of one section (upper & lower berths), it is a miniature compartment with a sliding metal door, a real bed which folds into the wall giving ample...
...President Peter C. Christensen of Button Corp. of America, his wife charging that he had lavished a small fortune on a blonde artists' model, asking $1,000 per week alimony. Given this new idea of his wealth, Mr. Christensen's 400 employes promptly decided that he could afford to pay them better wages, walked out on strike. Up in a big black limousine drove Mrs. Christensen to cheer on the strikers, march for an hour in their picket line. Said Mr. Christensen, peering from behind his office curtains, "She is most unreasonable and uncivil. ... I haven...