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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among Kansas City's sundry vices has been the biggest dope trade in any U. S. city. U. S. Narcotics Commissioner Harry Jacob Anslinger suddenly appeared in Kansas City, where his men have been quietly tracking dope merchants for nearly two years, and last week they arrested a Pendergast policeman, a Pendergast ward heeler, five lesser characters...
...private enterprise the Federal Theatre Project last week handed over the biggest money-maker in its history: the Swing Mikado. After May 1, Chicago's Marolin Corp. will control the show, re-employ its all-Negro cast of 80. They will provide new sets since the present ones, being Government-owned, cannot be bought. They will up the admission from $1.10 to a $2.20 top, move the show from Broadway's outskirts to pleasure-seeking 44th Street, opposite a wildly glaring Hot Mikado. For the Hot Mikado's Producer Michael Todd, sore to begin with because...
...Biggest 25? worth of facts & figures the cinema industry could buy last week was a 377-page review of foreign film markets during 1938, issued by the U. S. Department of Commerce. Most comforting figures: despite censorship bans and trade barriers in authoritarian countries, Hollywood lost only 6% of its market abroad, still ruled the 1938 roost by supplying 65% of all the films shown in the world's cinemas. Most disturbing fact: in Esthonia, esthetic censors banned several Hollywood films for mere banality...
...most of its U. S. readers, Gone With the Wind is straight historical romance. Foreigners like it almost as much, but judge it differently. Now published in 14 countries, with sales reaching 184,000 in England, 6,000 in Hungary, 4,750 in Chile, it has made its biggest sensation outside the U. S. in Nazi Germany, which has bought 134,000 copies. Nazi highbrows, calling it irresistible, found it an attack on "plundering mercantile Yankee capitalism" and on democracy. Said Das Innere Reich, leading Nazi literary journal, "We see the fall and death of the old aristocrats, the rise...
...Standard." Henry Flagler, Standard official, complained of John D. Rockefeller: "He would do me out of a dollar today," then caught himself and added hastily, "that is, if he could do it honestly." McClure's flourished as the articles appeared, went on growing until McClure announced his biggest idea: a chain of commercial companies, a model community. Steffens, Tarbell, a McClure partner, several staff members, resigned in a body. McClure's never recovered. But Ida Tarbell implies that the staff members never functioned quite so well working for themselves or for less trying editors...