Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The heart of U. S. show business is Manhattan's Times Square, and the Astor Hotel is "The Heart of Times Square." There the First Convention of the Legitimate Theatre assembled last week. Sponsored by the American Theatre Council, the meeting was like nothing that ever came out of...
Abolition of the luxury tax on theatre tickets, more WPA, establishment of modern auditoria from coast to coast to accommodate better road shows, a revolving fund for producers, more summer theatres, free seats for proven drama lovers were all discussed. But the Theatre's overpowering problem, the one which...
†At week's end, accepting an honorary degree Doctor of Public Service) from Oglethorpe University (Atlanta), Producer Golden unburdened himself of some sentiments about his fellow producers which he had failed to give the convention:
The names of common drugs which make habitual users permanently hard of hearing was the most immediately useful information presented at the convention of the American Otological Society at Long Beach, L. I. last week. Those drugs are, according to Dr. Hermon Marshall Taylor of Jacksonville, Fla.: quinine, salicylates (aspirin...
Allied's third big objective, outlined at the convention, is to strike at the "big boys" through legislation to tax theatre chains just as chain groceries are now taxed in Louisiana (TIME, May 31). A model tax bill was presented basing the tax on the number of seats. Above...