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Word: contractive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he appeared opposite Marlene Dietrich in The Scarlet Empress in a neck-length wig, vigorous, clean-cut Cinemactor Lodge seems to have found a niche in British cinema. So pleased were his producers by his work in Ourselves Alone that he is now under a long-term starring contract. Already announced is Sensation, from Basil Dean's play Murder Gang, in which he will appear as a tough reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 9, 1937 | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...Broadway's one big strike and still is the Theatre's one big Labor milestone. When it was all over Actors Equity emerged a victorious and potent body. Five years later Equity obtained a closed actors' shop, and no producer dared open without an Equity contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: One Big Union | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...maintain an acceptable number of musicians on its payroll. All these musicians must be union members. No station could transmit music to a pickup station that did not employ musicians. Every station must be licensed by the A. F. of M., use only records and transcriptions similarly licensed. Every contract between a local and a radio station must clearly acknowledge these terms. Before playing canned music the announcer must announce it as such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A.F.M.'s Ultimatum | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...Antonio, Tex. last week rumbled one of the last vans full of plaster and clay models of sculpture by Mountain-Carver Gutzon Borglum, who closed up his studio and left Texas for good last month after the contract for San Antonio's greatest memorial, the Alamo Cenotaph, was awarded not to him but to pudgy Sculptor Pompeo Coppini. During the twelve years he called San Antonio his home, big-eared, irascible Sculptor Borglum never finished a Texas job. A hater of cheap politics since the fiasco of his Stone Mountain project in Georgia, Borglum's wrath at Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sculptor Troubles | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...Commission, first saw clay models of Sculptor Milles' Wedding of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers reproduced in LIFE, grumbled that the fountain group would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony." Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, agreed that the Milles tritons should be trousered. Awarded a contract in April 1936, and warmly supported by other members of the Commission, Sculptor Milles worked on serenely in Detroit last week while a St. Louis Star-Times poll of public opinion showed 152 votes for the statues. 552 against them. Excerpts from replies received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sculptor Troubles | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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