Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1928 when she flew as "baggage" from Newfoundland to Wales in a monoplane piloted by the late Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon, Miss Earhart had to submit to such labels as "Lady Lindy," "First Lady of the Air," etc. Her name was bought by Cosmopolitan, which engaged her as aviation editor, then by Transcontinental Air Transport, which appointed her assistant to the general traffic manager. Last autumn she was given charge of publicity for Ludington Line (plane-per-hour) operating between New York and Washington, a job lately delegated elsewhere. Few months ago Miss Earhart married her friend...
...longer sing. When he gets back to Germany, fresh air and exercise help restore his voice. Played in German, with a good anonymous tenor voice in the intervals when Emil Jannings makes gestures appropriate to singing, Der Grosse Tenor was exhibited in Manhattan last week at the UFA Cosmopolitan Theatre, hereafter to be used for other untranslated UFA products.* The Maltese Falcon (Warner). Author Dashiell Hammett, a onetime Pinkerton detective, improved the technique of horrifying readers by writing quick, unmannered prose and by making his characters tough as well as unscrupulous, appallingly bad as well as secretive. Some...
...executive editor of Tower Publications, magazines published for sale in Woolworth chain stores, was appointed Verne Porter, onetime editor of Cosmopolitan, editor-in-chief of Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions (films), editor-in-chief of Paramount-Famous-Lasky, lately scenario editor in the East of Universal Pictures Corp. His duty: to keep liaison between Editorial Director Hugh Weir and the managing editors of the respective magazines (New Movie, Illustrated Love, Illustrated Detective, Home). ¶ Ten years ago famed Typographer Frederic William Goudy was commissioned by Woman's Home Companion to design a new type face for the magazine...
Each answer was read two or three times by the judges' "staff," then the best ones (about 500) were bound, sent to Editor Ray Long (Cosmopolitan), Chain-Publisher Roy Wilson Howard and Artist Charles Dana Gibson (Life) for final judgment. Only last week were the winners decided...
Ladies' Man (Paramount). Rupert Hughes got a fancy price for screen rights to his novel, serialized in Editor Ray Long's Cosmopolitan, but this little story might just as easily have been adapted from the drooling lyric of the current foxtrot, "Just a Gigolo." A few weeks' experience as a bond salesman was what made William Powell turn gig, and he did well for a while on the money received from pawning jewelry given him by admirers. He vacillated agreeably between Kay Francis, Olive Tell and Carole Lombard ; he had even fallen in love with Miss Francis...