Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...singers of the company have worked together as a group for four years, and it is the first time that a really trained chorus has worked together over so long a stretch and that such emphasis has been given to the opera as a whole, making it primarily an ensemble rather than a company of individuals. This company serves as a stepping-stone to the larger companies; for many years there has been a crying need for smaller companies, such as this trained at home rather than studying in Europe. As there are no "stars" in the American Opera Company...
...company is turning its back on tradition in more than one way. Instead of a galaxy of expensive and temperamental foreign stars, a group of American singers, with none gifted particularly beyond the others, shifts from chorus to leading role and back as the repertory is presented. Instead of striving to sing to the vast tiers of seats in an opera house, this company modestly plays in theaters of ordinary size. Incidentally, one might note that a tax is charged on tickets to the company's performances, while opera usually goes taxfree. This may be a subtle admission that...
...Hearst group (25 newspapers, Cosmopolitan...
Take, for example, the True Story magazine, kingpin of Bernarr Macfadden's confession group (True Romances, True Experiences, Dream World). Boasting of "the largest newsstand sale in the world," more than 2,000,000 a month, True Story sets the fashion in sex yarns. In May 1919, its first issue appeared with some sober items about Elsie Ferguson, Billie Burke, William S. Hart, Douglas Fair banks. But the meat of the magazine was confession fiction. Of these stories, six contained attempted seductions, three contained successful seductions. A successful one was described as follows: "His kisses intoxicated me. Everything seemed...
...they knew, could carry new financing. It had never gone to the general public for funds and it was a great profit-earner. On his part, he could use some millions to pay for papers which he had recently acquired and for others which he proposes to buy. The group called their parleys a deal, and last weeK the E. W. Scripps Co. issued $8,500,-ooo gold debenture bonds through the three banking houses...