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Popularity of a movie star can be measured by box-office value, fan mail, exhibitors' polls, salary. Owners of theatres in small villages and small cities, where westerns are most favored and where Hollywood's most touted stars often play to empty seats, call Autry the industry's "mortgage lifter." His fan mail averages 4,000 letters a week, more than Clark Gable's or Shirley Temple's. In exhibitor polls of western stars he stands at the top. Autry's pay, $12,500 per picture, is not what it might be, but this...
With the citation, "Van Wyck Brooks: Vigorous author, evocative critic of the America of Mark Twain, Henry James, and Ralph Waldo Emerson; examiner of New England roots and exhibitor of her finest flowers," the second of these annual awards was made...
...another article, Robert W. Chambers of the research staff of the Business School discusses the movie double feature as a sales problem from the angles of producer, exhibitor, and public...
...void the legalists cited the Contract Labor Law of 1885 which voids contracts entered into with aliens prior to entry into the U. S. Revised in 1917, the law permits U. S. appearances of professional actors, artists and singers, also entry of fair & exposition performers contracted by an alien exhibitor. What Judge Barnes had to decide this week is whether the statute bars such contracts secured by a U. S. promoter...
Most cause for catcalls had old, famed Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., one of the world's largest music houses, best known exhibitor at the show. Two years ago, to recoup Depression losses on organs, pianos, violins, Wurlitzer broke into the coin machine market with nickel operated phonographs, Skee-ball games. Last year it is supposed to have grossed about $8,000,000 on these items alone. Last summer Rock-Ola, which had acquired patents on the coin phonograph from the old Deca-Disc Co., sued Wurlitzer for patent infringement. If this case goes against it, Wurlitzer may lose...