Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME April 4: "Itsy-bitchy angel face." Swell. Grand. Great...
...dormitory late last night, the CRIMSON learned from Editor-in-Chief Phyllis Frederick that 550 copies of "Etc." had been printed, and it's practically a sell-out." Admitting that finances were in a some-what precarious state, Miss Frederick confessed that she was "looking for an angel," but hastily asked that her telephone number be withheld...
...Joseph A. Fields & Jerome Chodorov; produced by Philip Dunning). Last week Hollywood landed on Broadway again. The new wrinkle this time was the kids in pictures who, when they are not acting, go to school on the lot. Headliner among them is an itsy-bitchy angel face (Betty Philson) who starts the ball rolling by having her teacher fired. Thereafter, the dear old Goldwyn-rule days give way to the usual mad, noisy, illiterate, shyster antics of the movie industry. Maddest, noisiest, worst illiterate, biggest shyster is a movie magnate (Robert H. Harris) who looks as sinister as a Kewpie...
...date set for resumption of publication drew near, the Digest's angel still hovered uncertainly in the offing. So President Havell extended the suspension for two weeks more. Hopefully, a test letter to 10,000 subscribers pleaded: "Literary Digest is not just another magazine; it is an American Institution of major importance. It cannot be allowed to die. . . . We ask you to put a dollar in the enclosed return envelope. . . . Your dollar will be credited to your subscription as an increase in rate...
Publisher Havell, certain the Digest had bumped bottom, announced that he hoped to resume publication in less than 60 days and continued to woo his elusive angel with promises the Digest's circulation would be all the better for being pared from 465,000 to a solid, potentially-profitable 300,000 by doing away with combination and bulk sales. Against liabilities of $1,492,056 (including a $60,000 demand note to Funk & Wagnalls-original Literary Digest publishers-$63,000 for paper, $30,000 for printing, $612,000 to readers for paid-up subscriptions), the Digest listed assets...