Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Artist Gross found his favorite subjects in the deserted streets and ramshackle houses of Virginia City, Nev. Says he: "I think Van Gogh must have felt the same way when he first saw Arles as I did when I first saw Virginia City...
Cigar-puffing, Bronx-born Milt Gross is mainly famous as the cartoonist who created the comic-strip sagas Dave's Delicatessen, That's My Pop! and Count Screwloose of Tooloose. But in his restless career among the fine and lively arts, Cartoonist Gross has also taken several whacks at writing (Nize Baby, Famous Fimmales from Heestory, etc.) and at serious landscape art. Last week Hollywood's Frank Perls Gallery was exhibiting the results of Cartoonist Gross's latest venture into fine art: 30 drawings of homely, tumbledown western farm and mining-town scenes. Artist Gross...
Cartoonist Gross's recent excursion into landscape was prompted by Painter Fletcher Martin (TIME, Nov. 25, 1940), who was in Hollywood two years ago teaching Gross and an assortment of Hollywood columnists and photographers serious...
...Gold Rush (Chaplin; United Artists) is a revival of Charlie Chaplin's most successful comedy (gross: $7,112,000). Printed from the original 1925 negative, it has been modernized by its producer-director-author-star only to the extent of substituting his own narration for the old subtitles, editing out 1,000 feet of film and adding a musical background score. The result is a sight for sore eyes, for old-style Chaplin fans and novitiates alike...
...which war is bringing the U.S. is a trucking system with 24,400 miles of routes, 3,500 vehicles and 179 terminals in 129 cities, from Massachusetts to Louisiana. Its name: Associated Transport, Inc., a merger (by exchange of stock) of eight firms which last year had a combined gross revenue...