Word: beene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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200 stores, President Guth fizzed up its sales until by the end of 1935 he was able to report a net for the year of $464,000. Loft filed suit for his 237,500 shares (91%) of Pepsi-Cola stock, contending that it had been bought with Loft money, developed...
War may take some of the profit out of Pepsi-Cola by boosting the price of sugar (considerably more of it goes into its double-sized bottle than into a bottle of Coca-Cola). But it will have to be a long war. Last month, with a year's...
The Star Maker (Paramount) is an engaging archeological exploration into a vanished world of the U. S. amusement industry, the gaslit, two-a-day vaudeville that was historically bounded on one side by P. T. Barnum, on the other by radio and talking pictures. Loosely based on the life and...
A monument to the career of 58-year-old Gus Edwards, who served as its technical adviser, The Star Maker, shrewdly aimed at the U. S. cinema public's demonstrated appetite for nostalgia and precocity, should be a turning point in the career of another veteran showman. The picture...
The Author. A semi-legendary character, Kenneth Fearing has figured in far more novels than he has written. (The Hospital is his first.) In Albert Halper's Union Square he figures as the drunken poet. But, "Hell," declares Fearing, "I've been a character in some good novels...