Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the Dictator somewhat clarified his attitude at Trieste last week, Jewish President Arnaldo Frigessi Di Ratalma "voluntarily resigned" as head of this great port's biggest insurance firm Riunione Adriatica, which elected as his successor non-Jewish Fulvio Suvich, Italian Ambassador to the U. S. who is now in Italy. Jewish President Edgardo Morpurgo of Assicurazioni Generali, the great Venetian insurance firm, likewise resigned last week and was replaced by famed Count Volpi, who in 1925 as Finance Minister negotiated the Italo-U. S. debt accord. Swank Countess Volpi is a Jewess and so is the old mother...
...those six, the two biggest hits carried the names of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Indeed, during the past three years they have continuously-except for one lone week-had a smash hit on Broadway. Last week, their / Married An Angel, entering its fifth month, grossed over $28,681-a new high-and averaged 80 standees a performance. This week, road-show rehearsals start on I'd Rather Be Right after its summer holiday. A week or two hence rehearsals will start on a third Rodgers & Hart show, The Boys from Syracuse, which they are doing with Playwright-Producer...
...theatre often enough, but there have been a few spills. There was Betsy, the flop they did for Ziegfeld. "Ziegfeld should have been a movie producer. He didn't know the first thing about music, yet he constantly butted in on the scores." Ten Cents a Dance, the biggest plum they got out of another Ziegfeld show, Simple Simon, they "practically slipped in over Ziegfeld's head...
...shows, from the sale of shows to Hollywood and foreign countries, from sheet music, from gramophone records, from radio recitals, from having their music played by bands. On shows they get 6% of the gross, which means about $750 a week apiece if a show is a hit. Their biggest money-maker was The Girl Friend which played all over the world. In Hollywood they got $50,000 to $60,000 a movie. And from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), which collects the royalties for public performances of copyrighted music, and grades royalties on a basis...
...most of whom are human waste, to make their living by panhandling is not virtuous; indeed, it is destructive and therefore evil. In view of the Harvard man's sophistication and supposed intelligence, it is ridiculous that he be regarded by professional beggars in this neighborhood as being the biggest sucker. Will you begin your career here by becoming the dupe of trained sympathy-provokers...