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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends had got only a quarter of a million out of the Federal grab bag, but they determined to outdo Dallas. They sent for Fanny Brice's husband, little Billy Rose, most grandiloquent of U. S. showmen, the author of Barney Google. Presented to him was a contract reputedly for $1,000 a day for 100 days. Promptly Fort Worth's "Frontier Centennial" was planned...
Under existing U. S. immigration laws, an alien artist who claims distinguished merit may obtain a U. S. visa merely by showing a contract for U. S. performances to a U. S. Consul. England is not so liberal toward foreign artists, permits them to enter for professional purposes only when there is proof that the applicant has qualifications which place him beyond competition with native artists. The French ruling is almost as stringent. Germany, Poland, Russia refuse to let alien artists take their earnings from the country. Italy bans all foreign performers save those who establish residences...
...cellist playing obscurely in the Metropolitan pit, Victor Herbert began his U. S. career. He had left Ireland in his youth, studied in Germany, taken a job with the Stuttgart Opera when in 1886 Walter Damrosch visited there, offered a Metropolitan contract to Therese Forster, a comely young singer who was to become Mrs. Victor Herbert. Damrosch offered Herbert $60 per week for the sake of signing up the singer he wanted. Mrs. Herbert's heyday was brief. She retired to bear children, grew plumper & plumper, never quite mastered the English language...
...District of Columbia statute which was invalidated in the famous Adkins decision in 1923. If there are any differences, they are of a highly technical nature and of small importance. All that concerned the majority of the court was that such laws interfere with the so-called "liberty of contract" which is protected by the "due process" of the fifth and fourteenth amendments. Liberty is taking on strange disguises indeed, when a state which tries to prevent an employer from exploiting women is violating the liberty of some sacrosanct individual...
...President Paepcke thought that quantity would be his company's salvation. But to conservative Boxmaker Brunt, whose credo was quality, the Paepcke policy seemed all wrong. Stubborn, he started a proxy fight to oust his young boss, lost in 1931. Accepting a lump-sum settlement for his salary contract, Brunt...