Word: ballyhooing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great British statesman was even more useful to MGM last week than the actual prospect of producing the Lloyd George Memoirs. Unlike the theatre, the cinema has no fixed "season." Only punctuation of year-round activity at major studios are annual "sales conventions," at which studio officials ballyhoo to their distributors the pictures they plan to produce during the next year. By last week, all major studios, except Columbia, had held their conventions, provided cinemaddicts with some notion of the screen fare in store for them...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, still the most potent producing plant in Hollywood, had more than David Copperfield and a Prime Minister to ballyhoo. Prime factors in the past success of Metro pictures have been 1) "star-power"; 2) Irving Thalberg. First two pictures on Producer Irving Thalberg's schedule are The Merry Widow, with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, directed by Ernst Lubitsch; and Pearl Buck's The Good Earth for which exteriors have already been filmed in China. Cinemaddicts, who have lately been warned by the Roman Catholic Church's Legion of Decency to cast a suspicious...
...famed in the South and Midwest), Peter Paul, Inc. of Connecticut's Mound (coconut) and Mason, Au & Magenheimer's Peaks and Mason mints. Black Crows is weathering the general slump in licorice which almost no one eats after the age of 12. Remote from the bar ballyhoo are the makers of candy in bulk and in boxes: Chicago's Bunte Bros., E. J. Brach; New York's Henry Heide; Boston's Schrafft and New York's Loft (both also restaurateurs; ; Cambridge's New England Confectionery: Atlanta's Nunnally; Philadelphia's Stephen...
...assure you don't know, 'cause, as a Yauk, you'd never is a million years give him the ballyhoo you are quoted as proposing if you did know...
...father's grocery wagon and watched Aristides win the race. Grocery Boy Matt Winn became Matt Winn, merchant tailor of Covington, Ky. Twenty years ago, Tailor Matt Winn became Colonel Matt J. Winn, racetrack manager. In 1914 he upped the Derby's purse, steadily began to ballyhoo the race into a social and sporting extravaganza. Now, 73, Colonel Winn as president of the American Turf Association operates not only Churchill Downs at Louisville, but Latonia, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, as well as Lincoln Fields and Washington Park outside Chicago...