Word: freehandedness
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The hard fact seemed to be that Broadway's production roster, which had shrunk from 224 in 1928-29 to an alltime low of 70 last season, was going to shrink further still. The modest wartime boom was really over, but high production costs remained. Producers looked in vain...
From 8 p.m. on, a third network, ABC, entered the struggle for Sunday night listeners. With the freehanded giveaway show Stop the Music (19.2%) and Walter Winchell (who currently leads the field with the top Hooper of 29.7%), ABC has clearly distanced its older rivals. Hardest hit in the percentage...
Song of the South (Walt Disney-RKO Radio) makes movie actors out of ol' Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and de creeturs an' crawlin' things. Adapted with freehanded skill from the famed dialect tales of Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908), the picture is a curious mixture...
Unperturbed, Gimbels this week ordered another 100,000 pens of a new model not afflicted with embolism. And Reynolds has bought a "practically" new factory in Chicago which will help turn out 30,000 "miraculous" pens a day. But from now on, selling the pens may not be so freehanded...
Lest they be suspected of approving the Peróns of Latin America, the critical Senators joined in a unanimous vote to confirm Braden's appointment. But they had made known that freehanded, aggressive "intervention," even for Latin liberties, was not the policy of the U.S. Senate.