Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent 15 years as a character actor on the Manhattan stage until his work in a Coast company of Whistling in the Dark got him a few small parts in Hollywood in 1932. His performance as a bibulous millionaire in Sadie McKee last year was a cinema classic. Producer B. P. Schulberg currently pays him $ 1,000 a week on a yearly basis, lends him to outside producers like Edmund Grainger who give him much more for short engagements...
Composer Metz also claims he wrote that other ragtime classic. Ta-Ra-Ra- Boom-De-Ay, a matter of dispute since the tune may have sprung from oldtime honky-tonks as did Frankie & Johnny, or may have been written by one of Metz's colleagues, the late Henry J. Savers. For writing A Hot Time, which Publisher Marks estimates has sold more than 1,000,000 copies, Composer Metz still receives royalties from its frequent cinema and radio performances...
Last week the directors of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. declared their initial dividend, a 50? payment that marked the first return on a classic promotion. Just 20 years ago a Canadian prospector stumbled on a rusty streak of sulphide ore in the ancient rocks of northern Manitoba. Having grub-staked the prospector and his five partners, John E. ("Jack") Hammell made them a proposition: $100,000 for each prospector, $1,000,000 for himself if he could get it. Laughing uproariously, the prospectors agreed...
...holding and operating companies which Promoter Harley Lyman Clarke put under the control of Utilities Power & Light Corp. of Chicago. Serving 550 communities in the U. S., 488 in England and Wales. 31 in Canada, Utilities Power & Light is, however, not the apex of Promoter Clarke's classic pyramid. Its control rests in a small issue of voting stock held by a super holding company called Public Utilities Securities Corp. which in turn is controlled by a super-super holding company. Grand Potentate of them all, called Webster Securities Corp...
...savants, following a suggestion from a third, found that the classic Relativity equations could be altered to take particles and electric fields into account with no more drastic change than a simple elimination of denominators. The solutions came out free of "singularities," and they described a space radically different from the old four-dimensional continuum. The new space was a system of two identical "sheets" joined here & there by what Dr. Einstein and his associate deemed best to call "bridges." The bridges turned out to be particles. The properties of one bridge identified it as a particle with mass...