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...which he stated that Berlin would have to be invited to make a fourth at the parley on Spanish affairs which Britain and France had sought to have composed of only themselves and Italy. Italian and German editors suppressed or delayed printing the Chicago speech until they could bracket it with news of the enthusiasm of Madrid and Moscow and of how the U. S. State Department has licensed Soviet war purchases of over...
...theory that it was better for the help to have department store credit than to be burdened with various installment plans, the managements cooperated to the extent of allowing McCreery representatives to address employes in groups. Most applicants are in the $25-to-$50-per-week salary bracket, and their charge accounts are strictly limited, generally to an amount equal to one week's salary...
...week reported for work under a new wage scale won for them by the Screen Actors Guild. From now on, minimum day's pay for extras will be $5.50 instead of $3.20. Cinema cowboys will henceforth get $11 instead of $5 a day. With wages for other low-bracket actors up proportionately, the Guild's new scale affects all companies, makes most difference to bargain-hunting independents, who make 240 of Hollywood's 700 feature pictures a year. Costs will increase from $2,000 to $5,000 a picture...
...manner. By all the gauges Hollywood uses to measure a picture's importance, such as cast names, expensive sets and the fame of writers and directors, it should have remained merely a modest little musical for double bills. By a rare cinematic accident, it successfully refutes its sales bracket. Its gags and tunes are good, its patter fast. Above all it has the unprefigured value which is generated in a musical when most of the participants are young enough to enjoy their opportunities with relish and when the proceedings are not grave enough to numb them with anxiety concerning...
...engaged in only one play per year, a figure established by a Billboard survey in 1934. On this basis, an overwhelming number of actors who earn $40 to $90 a week averaged between $204 and $504 as their annual theatrical incomes in 1936. In the $100-$199 wage bracket the yearly figure was $510 and $1,014. These figures were apparently more than guesswork on the magazine's part, for of all the wage contracts signed through Actors' Equity in 1936, 1,693 were in the $40-$99 class, 522 in the $100-$199 group. Only 402 called...