Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succeeds as an actress. Jane Waddington Wyatt will do so at the expense of the hollow tradition that cheap theatrical boarding houses, one-night stands, hardships in stock companies and the pangs of poverty are indispensable incubators of talent. She was born 21 years ago near smart Tuxedo. N. Y. Her upbringing in horsy Dutchess County was well calculated to make her think of the theatre as a place into which nice people do not venture until the middle of the first act. Her first experience in drama was playing Shylock at fashionable Miss Chapin's School in Manhattan...
...have to be cheaper. He founded his own company, Decca Records, Inc., which for 35¢ apiece will have discs on the market this week made by Bing Crosby, Guy Lombardo, the Mills Brothers, the Casa Loma Band, Frank Crumit, Victor Young, Isham Jones. Jack Kapp's claim: All other cheap records have been made by obscure or mediocre performers. His white hope: Bob Crosby, young brother of Bing...
...seemed to head downhill. But they also should have offered a grateful word to Cinema. For it was the millions who had seen the film of An American Tragedy, not the thousands who had plugged through Dreiser's two-volume novel, that lifted the Wilkes-Barre story from a cheap, provincial homicide to a seven-day sensation...
...beginning of their last stand may well come next week, when the gold-bloc countries confer at Brussels on their monetary future. With their export markets fast slipping away to the lands of cheap money, factories are idle, citizens uproarious. Belgium will offer a plan for reciprocal and preferential treaties, segregating the gold bloc from the rest of the world. Dutch bankers are talking of pooling colonial empires and drawing in Italy. But fact remains that only France, with better than a 100% gold coverage for its currency, can hold out indefinitely?if Jean Frenchman can stand...
This is possible because the student nurse is a cheap slavey around a hospital. She scrubs floors, carries slops, makes beds, runs errands, does all the chores a housemaid might well do. Her education as a nurse is so meagre that her answers to examination papers are stock jokes among doctors...