Word: guarantors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office future had looked dark, but slashing ticket prices up to 50% had brightened things considerably. Conductor Ormandy was not worried: the tour, and the Philadelphia's nearly $16,000-a-week payroll (duly noted by the London press) was guaranteed. Hardly worried. either was the guarantor-handsome, 31-year-old British Impresario Harold Fielding, who stood to make up in publicity and prestige what he would shell out of his pocket. Moreover, on a turnabout's-fair-play basis, U.S. Music Czar James Caesar Petrillo would welcome British orchestras to tour...
...tended through the centuries in Merlin's cave. Yet somehow the grand ideals of Roman dominion have not been lost in the modern world: jus, the conception of a law that should transcend the limitations of the small people who first conceived it, and become at last the guarantor of justice to all sorts and conditions of men; imperium, the principle of a dominion that can enable all manner of races, languages and faiths to live together within the bounds of a single system of ordered rule, and of a citizenship that, though it may begin as the privilege...
...amour. In Mme. Chideu's till, the purple-and-green invasion currency brought in by the Allies mingles with old Bank of France notes. At first most shopkeepers worried because the printing on the new currency said only that the money was issued in France, named no guarantor. Now Mme. Chideu and her customers accept the Allied notes without question. Only the higher-ups still fret...
...Robe (RKO), from Lloyd Douglas' bestseller, will be filmed in Technicolor at a cost of $3½ to 4 million, will run 3½ to 4 hours, and will be directed by Hit-Guarantor Mervyn LeRoy (Random Harvest, Madame Curie). ¶ The Miracle (Warner), based on Max Reinhardt's hyperpituitary Gothic superspectacle, is budget-estimated by Producer Wolfgang (son of Max) Reinhardt at $3,000,000. Biggest casting problem: an actress adequate for the double role of nun and Madonna. The film will be in Technicolor, and will run the better part of four hours...
...German people of today are no longer the same as the German people of . . . 1914-18. A people's state has sprung from the former bourgeois capitalist state. >"The surest guarantor for the strength of will necessary [for victory] is in the National Socialist Party with its organizations, and over & above everything, a nation educated...