Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
When the picture was half finished, faithful Hendrickje Stoffels (much more plump in life than in the film) died. Rembrandt was too affected to finish it. In the summer of 1665 Harmen Becker, a pawn broker of Amsterdam, came to press the painter for 537 guilders. Pawnbroker Becker discovered in the studio the still unfinished picture of Juno. Pawnbroker Becker had an eye. He promised to take something off Rembrandt's debt if Juno were finished and turned over to him. Rembrandt complied and, once delivered to Pawnbroker Becker, Juno disappeared for many years...
...proctor in Standish when it was a Freshman hall, and later in Grays, he won the love of the incoming classes. Therefore it was felt fitting that the Freshman class at the time of his death should start a fund for a memorial to film...
...then he was full of plans for blending "canned" music with living singers. Benjamin Adler, a Manhattan cotton broker, backed him when in 1933 he put on Carmen in New York. In that production Metropolitan Tenor Frederick Jagel sang against an orchestra & chorus which were recorded on discs, not film. Last summer when he was touring Russia, Shavitch persuaded the Fine Arts Commissariat to give his device a further hearing...
...method Synchro-Opera. He says he is a "synchronizer" rather than a conductor. Since his demonstration has been a success, he will be authorized to train 20 "synchronizers" for opera companies to tour the Soviet Union. Traveling light and cheaply, each company will need only 20 singers, film & sound producing devices, simple scenery. In time Shavitch hopes to put the scenery as well as the sound on films...