Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...countersuit between Gillette Safety Razor Co. and United Cigar Stores Co. were settled out of court last week. Gillette had charged that United had exaggerated its ability to sell razors and blades, claimed $10,000,000 damages were due. United brought a $7,000,000 countersuit for breach of contract. The extra-legal settlement provided for a $1,900,000 payment by Gillette and the resumption of business relations. But existing contracts are cancelled. At the end of last year Gillette had $4,212,000 in cash...
...plump, liquid-eyed tenor is Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, who earns fat contracts by hurling lusty high C's at the boxes in William Tell, caroling lushly in operatic staples like La Traviata and Rigoletto. He has been paid well by the Metropolitan Opera. But he says that the U. S. is culturally immature, that he will stay in Europe next year when his contract expires. There he is more appreciated. In Paris, for instance, it is a gala occasion when he sings as guest star; the Opera pushes up its prices a bit (usually $3.20 for best orchestra seats...
...special billing, special advertising, best dressing-rooms, and of course a No. 1 star rating. Crushingly from Rome last week came an official communiqué of the Consortium of Lyric Theatres which controls all the lyric theatres and opera houses in Italy, as well as all concert artists under contract. Because of "excessive special conditions," Lauri-Volpi was for an indefinite length of time to be boycotted...
When she signed an RKO Pathé contract in 1929 Constance was shrewd enough to insist on a ten-week holiday every year. Recently she spent this holiday working for Warner Brothers at $30,000 a week, highest salary ever paid to a cinemactress. Last week she left Hollywood for a trip to Europe with a quick stop-over in Manhattan. Her companion on train and boat (adjacent staterooms) was the Marquis de la Falaise et de la Coudray, estranged husband of Gloria Swanson...
General Aviation will speed completion of its contract to build 15 twin-motored observation and bomber planes for the Army, five flying boats for the Coast Guard. Then it will abandon the Fokker name, probably will concentrate on the development of an entirely new type of transport plane for civil...