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While the U.S. taxpayer goes through the $77 billion tax bite necessary to feed the new federal budget, he stands to be nibbled by piranha attacks of increased state taxes. Combined budgets of U.S. Governors as 46 legislatures convene this year*to consider fiscal matters: more than $17 billion, an increase over current expenditures of about $1 billion...
...meet road problems, the theater operators meeting in Manhattan last week 1) called for the organization of an independent production unit solely concerned with plays for the road, 2) suggested an industry reserve fund to be built from a 10? bite on every ticket sold on the road, 3) sent Theatre Guild Director Lawrence Langner to plead with actors' agents that they persuade their clients to hit the road...
Last week that ancient advertising rite was celebrated in Variety's 53rd annual anniversary issue, a hefty (2 lbs., 6 oz.), 290-page publishing phenomenon (457 different ads) representing the combined efforts of ten operatives who spent a hectic six weeks putting the bite on showfolk...
Bulletin Board. The anniversary issue was hardly must reading on Broadway (as weekly Variety usually is), even for the advertisers who had subsidized it. In Hollywood, just a few months before, many of them had felt a similar bite for the 28th anniversary issue of the Hollywood Reporter (384 pp.) and the silver jubilee issue of Daily Variety (436 pp.). Some of them were beginning to wonder if the publicity was worth the price. Purred Actress Faye Emerson: "Whenever I open in anything, the very next day a woman calls from Variety and says. 'Did you see our nice...
...just right for the man who desires a full evening of Escape. Leaving your quiz at 5:15 in Memorial Hall, you can just make it to the Brattle in time for the first show. Since the Brattle lets out at 7:30 you should have time for a bite to eat before leaving for the Exeter, arriving there at 9:00 and missing the short subjects, which definitely should be missed. Maigret ends at 11:00, and with luck on the traffic lights you can be back in Cambridge by 11:15, just in time for Jack Paar...