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Showfolk know that many an Equity card-holder does not expect to earn his or her living entirely from the stage, takes on radio, film, modeling, nightclub work to eke out stage earnings. The Billboard''?, distressing figures, however, make it easy to understand why the Broadway axiom nowadays is that it is easier to write a play than cast it, many & many an actor having traded prospects of unreliable pay on the stage for modest Hollywood film contracts...
...tongue in my cheek, in bed, probably wearing a silk dressing-gown and shaking with cynical laughter." Like Coward's plays, Present Indicative strikes many a theatrically effective note of frankness. When he was a child-actor in London he used to steal waitresses' fourpenny tips to eke out his meagre lunches...
...being given the munificent sum of $1,500 a year. I cannot understand why Congress fails to realize that the men of the Secret Service who occupy hazardous positions are entitled to adequate retirement considerations." Retiring Chief Moran, long famed for his lack of communicability, said he might eke out his diminished income by writing his reminiscences...
Earlier in the season the Mitchellmen defeated the Ithacans 7-6, being forced at that time, however, to score two runs in the ninth in order to eke out the win. George Tittmann, who pitched the first game, will be sent back to oppose them on Saturday...
Richard M. Derson '37 wielded a handy racquet to eke out it win from W. F. Howe, Jr. (U. R. C.); 17-16, 17-14, 13-15, 15-10. John L. Clark '36 took the final match from Lothrop Withington...