Word: em
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further explanation Mr. DeMille's first description of the land of golden opportunity for the Hollywood-minded collegian paled somewhat. Mr. DeMille is after the bright young men all right but he won't train 'em. He expects the colleges to do that...
...make most of the animated cartoons produced in the U. S. Of the man who makes the rest and the best, Mr. Schlesinger recently observed: ''We're businessmen. Walt Disney's an artist. With us, the idea with shorts is to hit 'em and run. With us, Disney is more of a Rembrandt...
Disney, Inc. "It was always my ambition to own a swell camera," says Walt Disney, "and now, godammit, I got one. I get a kick just watching the boys operate it, and remembering how I used to have to make 'em out of baling wire." The baling wire period in Walt Disney's life lasted from 1901 to 1930. In 1901 Walt was born in Chicago. His father, Elias, was a contractor, who now lives quietly with Walt's mother in Oregon and hears from his famous son about twice a year. The family moved...
Deep in the jungle, Bring 'Em Back Blynn discovers the bird-girl warbling away in the midst of an enthusiastic chorus of birds. Any opera scout but one named Lucius B. Blynn would have recognized the tune as Saint-Saëns' Nightingale song. Caught in a bamboo cage, she is taken to the U. S., twittering bird notes to a feathered crony named Ewyscray, venturing Gallic asides to Press-agent Jack Oakie. Before the ensuing complications are ironed out, the bird-girl trains her upper-register fluidity on the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor...
...York stockmarket completed ten days of solid gain with Dow-Jones industrial averages reaching 128. Moody's commodity price index was up from 144.6 on November 24 to 149.2 last week with industry buying heavily for the first time in months. And Bernard E. (''Sell 'em Ben") Smith, most famed of Wall Street bears, for the first time in his life came out as co-underwriter of an issue-100,000 shares of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp...