Word: hullabaloos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile last week Ford production had not started on a large scale despite much hullabaloo about his "risking all" (TIME, Feb. 22). Steelmakers chafed and competitors tended to await Ford's moves, slowing all industry...
First to ape Ballyhoo was Hullabaloo, published by George T. Delacorte Jr. (who also publishes Ballyhoo) in a halfhearted effort to forestall real competition (TIME, Nov. 16). Next came a disorderly little magazine called Tickle-Me-Too, published by Harold Hersey, who publishes magazines for Bernarr Macfadden, who had engaged in a bitter quarrel with Publisher Delacorte. Tickle-Me-Too was so inferior that Publisher Hersey promptly killed it (but in a few weeks he will offer another called Slapstick). Last week newsstands were dotted with Hooey...
...first issue of Hullabaloo, edited by Lester Grady who also edits Delacorte's Film Fun, did not seem to warrant the hullabaloo which it caused. As a caricature of the cinema and of cloying movie-fan magazines it scarcely transcended the unconscious absurdity of the fan magazines themselves. Plainly Publisher Delacorte did not want to be too rough with the industry which supports three of his publications?Film Fun, Screen Romances, Modern Screen?the last the second most successful (after Ballyhoo} of his string of fourteen. Some features of Hullabaloo's first issue...
...Hullabaloo is planned as a monthly. But those who are familiar with Publisher Delacorte's methods know that if the first issue of 300,000 copies at 15^ proves not popular, a second will never appear. His investment in the magazine is small; even the covers are of the lot which was printed for the current Modern Screen, and therefore carry the same advertisements, but without charge. Otherwise Hullabaloo, like Ballyhoo, was adless...
...Film Fun, Screen Romances, Modern Romances, Modern Screen, War Stories, War Birds, War Aces, Western Romances, All Western Stories, Sweetheart Stories, Cupid's Diary, I Confess, Ballyhoo, Hullabaloo...