Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prettily dimpled, with a mature lyric soprano voice that made her a sensation on the radio when she sang on Eddie Cantor's hour this autumn, Edna May Durbin was born in Winnipeg, brought up in Los Angeles where her father is a broker. She started taking singing lessons at 11. Last year her voice caught the ear of Hollywood Agent-Manager Jack Sherrill who put her under contract, got her a test with M-G-M for a picture that was never made. Her possibilities impressed Associate Producer Rufus LeMaire. When he joined Universal, he persuaded...
...trees growing from horses' backs, etc. Examining these and other dadaist creations, Poet Andre Breton, who frequently dresses entirely in green, smokes a green pipe, drinks a green liqueur and has a sound knowledge of Freudian psychology, discovered behind all this a newer and better ism. In the autumn of 1924 he wrote his Manifesto of Surrealism, and a word and a school were born.* Excerpt: "Surrealism rests in the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of association neglected heretofore ; in the omnipotence of the dream and in the disinterested play of thought. . . . We who have...
...have no time to lose in getting ready to meet it." Indeed, retailers are expecting to meet the boom this month in Christmas trade which will be the heaviest in dollars since 1929 and may exceed that year in volume of actual goods. In rural sections retail trade this autumn has already topped 1929. City counters have been jammed ever since the holiday shopping started after Thanksgiving, with a notable improvement in demand for quality and luxury lines. In Manhattan stores furs have led all departments in gains over last year...
Chapter 6. By the summer of 1935, however, Radio was ready to wash its hands of an unhappy stepchild. In the autumn Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp., biggest U. S. investment trust, paid Radio $5,000,000 for half of its interest in RKO, with an option on the rest to be exercised before the end of 1937. Joining Atlas in the purchase was Lehman Bros., interested in Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corp...
Carib's assets foot up to a mere $1,200,000, three-fourths of which is represented by its present stake in the Barco game. An investing company, it has only one full-time official Secretary & Treasurer Charles Ferris French. This autumn he was suddenly presented with an opportunity to withdraw gracefully from the Barco game with winnings of more than 100% on the ante. An undisclosed group offered $2,000,000 for the Barco interest. Informed of the facts last week, the stock-holders accepted with alacrity. With that $2,000,000 Carib will look for another game...