Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Artist Soglow sold Publisher Hearst a comic strip called The Ambassador. Last week The Ambassador was recalled to make way for the Little King, who at the same time abdicated from the New Yorker, his contract having expired. In his debut as a Hearstling the Little King romped gaily in color through a page of ten drawings, in which he was depicted as entertaining his assembled subjects with an impromptu performance on a tight rope...
...Exchange. A group of Manhattan brokers, however, have decided that there will be a futures market within a week. Highest hurdle they had to jump was to find a satisfactory grade of tobacco to use as the standard trading medium. There are countless grades "of cotton but the base contract is Middling ? in. Upland. All departures from the standard grade are adjusted between buyer & seller. Likewise the New York Tobacco Exchange, instead of dealing in Bright Flue-cured, Dark-fired Kentucky, Burley, One-sucker, Green River, Black Fat and their infinite variations, will trade in "U. S. Standard Flue...
...announced that its employes had petitioned to continue work. At Charlotte, N. C., union leaders held what amounted to an old-fashioned Southern camp-meeting, with mighty prayers for success. In Paterson, N. J., silk textile workers announced that they would strike in spite of the fact that their contract with manufacturers forbids a walkout without first consulting the Industry's Industrial Relations Board...
...earlier Vance cinemas, William Powell has been Philo. Since Powell is now under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Vance this time is impersonated by Warren William. His performance as a detective is superior to his impersonation of Julius Caesar in Cleopatra but none of the ingredients of The Dragon Murder Case is sufficient to make the picture a puzzle or a shocker. Typical shot: Eugene Pallette, who, no matter who plays Vance, always appears as Vance's stupid police foil, muttering his catch line: "My experience as a criminologist teaches me to suppose...
...really looks more like a carp. Born Warren William Krech in Aitkin, Minn., he went to France during the War, resumed his career as actor when he returned. He appeared in 26 stage failures, four successes. Last of the four was Vinegar Tree (1930) which got him a cinema contract. Now one of the busiest male stars in Hollywood, he is famed for his profile and his versatility. He has performed in farce (Goodbye Again], satire (The Dark Horse), musicomedy (Gold Diggers of 1933), melodrama (The Mouthpiece), costume romance (Honor of the Family}, sentimental comedy (Lady...