Word: granted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whoa, there! Wait a minute! What's this about the Noel Coward doings being the "first smash hit of a middling season" [TIME, Dec. 7]? What about Stage Door! What about Tovarich! I'll grant that the season has been even less than middling and the crop of flops has been a bumper one, but since first they opened both of these plays have been complete sellouts. Stage Door has never fallen below $19,500 a week at the Music Box and if that isn't a smash hit my name is Ivan Ivanovitch...
...each other: "I'm not going to let my reporters tell me how to run my paper!" Heartening to A. N. P. A. men was a strong message last week from their directorate, urging them to treat with no American Newspaper Guildsmen or any other editorial employe group, grant no "preferential" employment regulations, arbitrate no dismissals, fix no wages on a definite time scale "regardless of the quality of work...
...formerly considered one of the most individualistic of enterprises, is being made a cooperative one by a government plan being directed by Grant Wood, famed Iowa artist, and carried out by University of Iowa NYA and WPA student workers. The three panels of the Iowa State College mural project will be II feet high and 41 feet long. Every effort is being made to have the murals historically correct in every detail...
...come under the usual tax-exempt category. Another clause, however, stipulates that taxes on bequests should not exceed 15% of the amount given to any one beneficiary, leaving approximately $2,000,000 which will eventually be realized by the University. Federal taxation will not effect Mrs. Nieman's grant because of its educational use, and also because Federal inheritance taxes cannot be twice collected on the same money within a five year period...
Negro Composer William Grant Still's dull, pretentious Ebon Chronicle followed, then Van Phillips' saucy, syncopated fugue called Thank You, Mr. Bach and a harp solo of the St. Louis Blues by World's Hottest Harpist Casper Reardon. Biggest hit of the day was All Points West by Rodgers & Hart. Here, against a tragic throbbing of strings and weird wind effects, Baritone Raymond Middleton Jr. called trains, recited the cynical, sentimental, sniggering thoughts of a train announcer, was unexpectedly shot by a stray bullet...