Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bread & Gas. Panem et circenses, bread and circuses, were the prime requisites of happiness for the plebs of ancient Rome. Bread and gasoline are prime popular requisites today. Last week no wise Emperor but two ferocious price wars made bread and gas fantastically cheap in San Francisco-three loaves for 10? and 7? a gallon...
...there is no way to get there, no cheap convenient way!" objected the Marshal. "We must build a subway." They told him that would take years?out of the question! He waxed warm; they too. At last the Marshal yielded...
...McCormick of Chicago was the prime agitator against printing radio programs. Said he: "Everybody wants cheap advertising but the cheapest advertising anyone can get is to buy an hour on the air and get his program published free in practically all the newspapers in the country. Radio itself is not a good buy, but material in the newspapers about radio programs is a good buy. I suggest that we do not allow radio broadcasters to collect cash for advertising we are giving their clients...
...entitled to plays, and good plays, at prices within their reach," Producer George Sharp has revived Young Sinners, a hit of last season, at a top price of $1. Balcony seats cost 50?. It is an attempt to lure moviegoers back to the theatre. The production is not cheap, the cast is headed by Dorothy Appleby and others from last season's success. It is a bargain at Si. Producer Sharp plans to present more and, it is to be hoped, better $1 plays...
...that takes the life out of its characterizations, its swift exciting action. Ignoring the actual scenes of ring battles constructed by Author Burnett with so much realism, Director Tod Browning has told the story in spasms of "Oh, yeah?" dialog, within the three walls of various cheap stage sets. The fighter wins his battles so long as he listens to his manager but fails at last because his chorus-girl wife, who is interested in him only for the money he can give her, makes him break with his manager and associate with "a better class of people...