Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year professional career has U. S. radio broadcasting encountered such a story as the brewing of World War II, and the networks went after it with the enthusiastic bustle of a newspaper city room on election night. On this assignment, radio was no cub. Its coverage of the Munich crisis and the Nazi occupation of Czecho-Slovakia were invaluable experience. For the last, exciting fortnight, radio's plans were consequently well laid. Correspondents reported daily, sometimes hourly from the main European capitals direct to U. S. listeners by radio telephone or short-wave pickups. Busy interpreters...
Main new material in Daniel Boone deals with Boone's career after the Indians were licked, as politician, surveyor, land-hungry businessman. Biographer Bakeless defends Boone's honesty, says that no proof exists that Boone deliberately swindled clients who lost their land through faulty titles. Boone was only careless, says Biographer Bakeless, and not least careless in failing to anticipate a rush of smart lawyers...
...talking pictures. Loosely based on the life and exploitations of Impresario Gus Edwards, who detected promise in such kiddies as Georgie Jessel, Lila Lee and Walter Winchell and plucked the youthful Eddie Cantor out of a knife-throwing act, The Star Maker has as its frame the similar career of Larry Earl (Bing Crosby). Like Impresario Edwards, Larry goes on mopping up with his moppets until a children's protective society forcibly shows him the error of his ways. By that time Larry has uncovered practically everything the U. S. has to show in the way of juvenile talent...
...monument to the career of 58-year-old Gus Edwards, who served as its technical adviser, The Star Maker, shrewdly aimed at the U. S. cinema public's demonstrated appetite for nostalgia and precocity, should be a turning point in the career of another veteran showman. The picture resulted from a meeting in Hollywood last year between ailing, retired Impresario Edwards and oldtime Moviemaker Charles R. Rogers, who had just been fired as production head of Universal. With the Edwards life story in his briefcase, unemployed Producer Rogers set out to do a picture on his own, went...
...Chicago corporation lawyer, Fearing got his literary start as winner of a $50 poetry prize at the University of Wisconsin, where he once went into bankruptcy and appointed a classmate as receiver. His early career in Manhattan consisted of writing verse and pulp stories, of writing home for money. Married in 1933, and now father of a wise four-year-old son, Fearing has increased both his weight and poetry earnings. (He observes smugly of his latest photograph that it makes him look like an Italian gangster.) In 1936 and again in 1938 he was awarded a $2,000 Guggenheim...