Word: ets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Shirley Temple is the ablest song-plugger in Hollywood. Sheet music sales on her songs, like Polly Wolly Doodle and On the Good Ship Lollipop, are over 400,000 copies each. These are larger than the sales of songs introduced in the same period by Bing Crosby, Jeanette MacDonald, et...
...years. Stokowski has talked of taking the Philadelphia Orchestra to Europe, South America, the Orient. One reason for his tiff with his directors last season was their failure to see their way clear to financing a tour while there was a considerable deficit at home (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934 et seq.). The angel that suddenly popped up was RCA Victor, for which Stokowski and his orchestra make many a red-seal phonograph record. RCA Victor underwrote the current tour for $250,000, hoping to get back much of it on the sale of records and phonographs. Last week the tour...
...ller was commissioned three years ago to Nazify all Protestant Christianity. So bullheaded were his tactics on behalf of his strange brand of Christianity that he promptly aroused among outraged churchmen the first effective opposition to the Nazi regime that Germany has yet seen (TIME, June 12, 1933 et seq.). Nazi strategists became alarmed. Reichsbischof Müller was robbed of all authority, even deprived of his private automobile. Stubbornly he clung to his title, rode on streetcars. Last week in an elaborate limited edition he published his own version of the Gospel according to St. Matthew...
...ethics by Upton Sinclair's EPIC. Dr. Coffey hopes that by "playing ball" with the A. M. A., that organization will fulfill his dearest wish and agree that he has cured many a case of cancer with hypodermic injections of extracts of adrenal cortex (TIME, Nov. 11 et ante...
...abetted by famed Choreographer George Balanchine, perform an even more impressive theatrical miracle by staging a 15-min. ballet of their own, "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue." which would probably evoke an ovation from modernists anywhere outside On Your Toes. Miracle No. 3, which tops the evening, occurs when Abbott et al. bring the whole performance back into the musical comedy theatre with an exciting, side-splitting and thoroughly surprising finale...