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...their high-pressure salesmanship, Gloria's voice soon belongs to a radio network, a gilded Manhattan nightclub and the admiring U.S. public. But Gloria is not easy to manage. She is finally the victim of a shooting scrape that lands Maureen in the clink and then in a fadeout clinch with Douglas. It is never made entirely clear what all the shooting is about...
Until World War I, Pathé dominated the world movie market. Then the Pathé influence began a fadeout. But Charles Pathé got about $2,500,000 for the syndicate when he cannily sold out his share just before the 1929 crash...
...never came, and that's just about the trouble with "Captain from Castile"; it never quite comes off. Every scene seems to lead inevitably to a gigantic battle in the final reel, but all suddenly comes to naught as Mr. Power and friends march off into a sunset fadeout...
...money. Top-selling bands on records: Vaughn Monroe and Ted Weems. Among girl singers, Jo Stafford, for her mock hillbilly disc of Timtayshun, rated twice as high in hit-tune sales as Dinah Shore. Perry Como was easily the top record-seller among the crooners. Most surprising fadeout of the year: Frank Sinatra, who wasn't even listed among Billboard's eight top male singers...
...Fadeout. After 2½ years as president of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers, Donald M. Nelson, ex-War Production Board chief, had had enough. He resigned his $50,000-a-year (plus $25,000 expenses) job to devote himself to "other business interests...