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...York City is the greatest single liquor market in the U. S. It is also paradise for liquor retailers, whose 40% markup is the country's highest. Ever since New York State legislators passed the Feld-Crawford Act (1935) New York City has also been No. 1 test tube for price-fixing laws. Under the Act (similar to price-fixing laws in 42 other States), prices of all trademarked articles can be price-fixed "vertically" by agreement between manufacturer and retailer...
...five years of Feld-Crawford, hundreds of retail liquor price wars have been nipped in the bud. Under threat of injunction, "chiselers" were forced to get back in line. But last week New York drinkers enjoyed the best price war yet. For the third successive week prices were 30 to 40% below fixed levels. Many New Yorkers, who had often spent $1 tunnel fare to buy their liquor in New Jersey, bought around the corner, rubbed elbows with Jerseyites buying in Manhattan. Fearing the price war might end any minute, they sent sales sky high...
...nervous that he couldn't face a mike until a messenger was sent to his home for a violin. After sawing quietly away for a few minutes, Muni got a grip on himself, went through his act without a hitch. Another mike-fever victim was pop-eyed Joan Crawford, who was so scared during her first performance that she had to remain seated through it. As part of his job as Lux Radio's sage, De Mille has to calm such agitated performers. His favorite actors among those who have appeared in the show are Joel McCrea, Fredric...
Barman. Next day Guildsmen spent twelve hours nominating and electing officers. Insurgent Candidate Kenneth Crawford, who had filled out Heywood Broun's unfinished term, went down in defeat. By a vote of 78⅔ to 66⅓ Regular Candidate Donal Sullivan became the Guild's new president. Secure in the saddle remained Milton Kaufman, Victor Pasche, Morris Watson...
Telescoped from four into three acts by Producer Cheryl Crawford, directed fairly briskly by Romney Brent, Maplewood's Second Mrs. Tanqueray afforded Tallulah Bankhead plenty of opportunities to show her deft dramatic stuff. As she whirled through her paces, the inevitable squeaks of the revival's old joints were hardly audible...