Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ross Alexander is a prize smart-alec, and his role in "Here Comes Carter" suits him perfectly. A Holywood publicity agent, he wise-crack himself out of his job and into digging dirt for a radio gossip hour. Ross takes over the broadcast when his boss gets drunk, and by fancy mudslinging becomes the darling of the ether. His girl resents this sordid occupation, and, together with some gangsters whom he is exposing in his broadcasts, brings adventures to the here. In the fade-out, however, true love triumphs...
Saturday evening at 10 o'clock the Glee Club will present the first five minutes of a nation-wide broadcast in honor of the National Broadcasting Company's tenth anniversary. Glee Clubs and bands from different parts of the country, will complete an hour's program of music...
...certified check to prove he was not a "vagrant." Again he did not make a highly successful speech because a court refused him an injunction against police interference, because 200 hoodlums with rotten eggs and soft tomatoes blocked his way into the radio station where he was to broadcast. Next he went to Tampa where he had just started to speak from a platform in an empty lot when a dozen hoodlums rushed in, knocked down several of his supporters with clubs and pistol butts, picked up the platform from behind, slid Nominee Browder and platform guests off into...
...high cost of campaigning this year is due in part simply to big ger and better expenditures on the same old things for which money has been spent for years. Something new in big campaign costs is radio. Such a minor party as the Communists will have a total broadcasting bill of $35,000 with National Broadcasting alone. The same firm announced that the Republican National Committee had up to last week spent $265,000 for use of its networks, and the Democratic National Committee -which had the advantage ear lier in the campaign of "free air" for sev eral...
...tune of $2,500. for which she played exactly 17 mm. 23 sec. in a General Motors broadcast from Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Pianist Ruth Slenczynski. 11. was launched last week on another U. S. season. Day before she had arrived from Europe wearing a red scarf and tarn her mother knitted, a grey coat which her father boasted had cost him "nearly $50.''' Declared Father Slenczynski. never reluctant to talk: "I have been her only teacher...