Word: billboards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what they did with themselves before the Depression. That in 1936 all Federal Theatre enrollees received a higher annual wage than most legitimate Broadway players, who supposedly could take care of themselves and did not need the dole, was an assertion, sensational if true, made last week by The Billboard ("The World's Foremost Amusement Weekly...
...Billboard headlined its discovery: WPA BOYS IN THE DOUGH. The dough in which the WPA boys are is $23.86 a week. Since the pay must go on whether the show does or not, WPActors' annual wage is $1,240.72. To prove that hundreds of "legit" actors get less than this from private show business, The Billboard states and accepts two main statistical premises: 1) average life of all new Broadway shows in 1936 was 5.12 weeks; and 2) six out of seven actors are engaged in only one play per year, a figure established by a Billboard survey...
Showfolk know that many an Equity card-holder does not expect to earn his or her living entirely from the stage, takes on radio, film, modeling, nightclub work to eke out stage earnings. The Billboard''?, distressing figures, however, make it easy to understand why the Broadway axiom nowadays is that it is easier to write a play than cast it, many & many an actor having traded prospects of unreliable pay on the stage for modest Hollywood film contracts...
What a Picasso abstraction is to a billboard, figure skating is to what most people do when they exercise on ice. Half sport, half art, it requires a course of training feasible only because figure skaters begin their vocation soon after leaving the cradle. When Robin Huntingdon Lee became U. S. champion at the age of 15, in 1935, he was no prodigy but a veteran of eight years' arduous training. Last week Robin Lee, Maribel Vinson, Erie Reiter and the rest of the small company of U. S. figure skating virtuosos were at Chicago to whirl, spin...
...confidence in John Hamilton; 2) as proof that no one else wanted his job. That job is not merely to reorganize a shattered Party. It is also, as Treasurer Charles B. ("Barney") Goodspeed explained last week, to wipe out a campaign deficit of $901,501.61, owing mostly for billboard and radio advertising. Chairman Hamilton, reported Treasurer Goodspeed. spent $67,000 less than the budgeted $6,300,000. But the Committee's receipts, like its candidate's votes, had fallen far short of its hopes...