Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...portrait in a Hollywood art store window with the legend: ''James Cruze-in Prison for Debt." The Cruze suit followed. Said Artist Decker: "When a man employs an artist to paint a portrait, it is up to the artist to do his worst, as he sees best. If Cruze wanted some wishy-washy, sloppy, sentimental portrait of himself, he could have had a photograph taken or hired a two-bit painter to do it. I gave him a work of interpretative...
Fashions in Love (Paramount). Like all plays good enough to be imitated but not good enough to be classics, The Concert by Herman Bahr, presented long ago on the legitimate stage by Leo Ditrichstein, has been discredited by inept adaptations of some of its best effects. Fashions in Love is the screen name for The Concert. By any name it remains a very good farce. It is concerned with the marital infidelities of an elderly and temperamental pianist whose wife gets him back by the not wholly startling method of pretending to be in love with the husband...
...hired more than 300,000 Ford workers. No reason was announced for the Wilson withdrawal, though readers of an interview given out by Mr. Wilson after his departure noticed a discrepancy between the Ford and the Wilson ideas of employe ages. Men from 35 to 60 are the best workers, said Mr. Ford. Men from 30 to 50 are best men," said Mr. Wilson. "After 50," said he, "most men cannot stand the pace...
Ramifications of Radio Corp. in entertainment are best shown by noting what Radio Corp. can (and doubtless will) do to "plug" (exploit) its entertainers. Example: Rudy Vallee, singer and orchestra leader, will soon be seen and heard in a Radio talkie. He can make Radio-Victor records of the featured songs. He can broadcast them over National Broadcasting Co.'s chain of 53 stations (N. B. C. is 50% owned by Radio Corp.). He can appear at RKO theatres. Cinema, radio, phonograph, vaudeville-Radio Corp. is very much in them...
With Emerson's* famed precept about the world's beating a path to the door, however remote, of the best mouse-trap maker, Mr. Sarnoff does not agree. Having seen and exploited many an invention, he says: "While the sylvan mouse-trap maker is waiting for customers and his energetic competitor is out on the main road, a third man will come along with a virulent poison which is death on mice and there will be no longer any demand for mouse-traps." Pointing to the manner in which phonograph makers adapted their products to the radio...