Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Photo-History has a novel idea behind it. Editor-Publisher Richard Storrs Childs, a socialite young Yaleman, intends to devote 68 LIFE-sized pages each quarter to a thorough pictorial takeout of one current subject. Photo-History: I devoted itself to the Spanish Civil War. On its cover a squad of male & female Government Milicianos bang away across a valley of olive trees at their Rightist foes. Inside, the bloody story of the long, internecine struggle is graphically set forth in a series of montages of news-photographs, newspaper headlines, charts and maps. At 35?, 100,000 copies of Photo...
...picture magazine is a large rotogravure publication exclusively devoted to sport. Launched as a monthly for a dime, Pic offers twelve issues for a dollar, presents action shots of current stars like Joe Di Maggio, Joe Louis, Jim Braddock, oldtimers like Annette Kellerman and Hans ("Honus"') Wagner. Idea of Pic came from its business manager, young A. Lawrence Holmes, Princetonian son of S. & S.'s Vice President Artemas Holmes...
...paid out of profits from the original San Francisco units. Soon the S. P. was transporting Fanchon & Marco's show up and down the west coast, then it was going all over the U. S.-52 units a year. For the young Wolfs had had a bright idea. Small cinema houses wanted to stage shows but could not afford them. Fanchon & Marco offered units at a reasonable price, equipped them and rehearsed them in Hollywood, sent them out complete with costumes, scenery and songs. Their studio on Sunset Boulevard near Western became a factory for mass production...
...actors than women and that her sex has little place in the production end of show business. "Once a woman stops being feminine, people don't like to have her around." Her present deal is the result of an interview with Adolph Zukor in which she presented an idea for making her own pictures for Paramount release. Zukor persuaded her to produce with studio money...
...MacDonald. Although the British called the Conference with the hope of stabilizing the world market and relieving them of onerous subsidies to Empire sugar growers, not old Mr. MacDonald, but Special Ambassador Davis steered the meeting off political shoals. While the Big Powers were easily won over to the idea of crop restriction along AAA lines, Mr. Davis and a special committee interviewed delegations representing sugar exporting countries one after another, day after day, for nearly a month...