Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Remember (RKO Radio). The idea that good pictures cost more than bad ones is so firmly rooted in the Hollywood subconscious that when a producer contrives to make a cheap picture which is also good, it occasions an almost panic confusion. Thus when, in A Man to Remember, Producer Robert Sisk and Director Garson Kanin turned out a film which, although budgeted for only $119,000 and made in 15 days, was unmistakably well above average A picture quality, RKO scarcely knew what to make of the situation. Finally the publicity department hit on a scheme. Instead of inviting critics...
...first visit to the U.S. After skimming the cream of Manhattan's swing spots, Pundit Panassie concluded that the U.S.,Manhattan, and Manhattan's Harlem were "marvelous," but that "jeeterbogs" were an unmitigated nuisance. He further concluded that a concert of jazz music was a "seely idea," that the rising generation of "cats" are mere kittens compared with the classic Louis Armstrong, "Bix" Beiderbecke and "Fots Wallair." His present favorites: Count Basic at the Famous Door, Sidney Bechet and Zutie Singleton, whose jamming is a nightly feature at Nick's Tavern, Manhattan...
Ever since Manhattan became Bagdad-on-the-Subway 34 years ago, lusty Chicago has toyed with the idea of an underground of its own. But despite years of fantastic traffic messes, civic pounding, editorial urging and earnest planning, Chicago is still the biggest city in the world without a passenger subway...
...published by Joseph J. White, offers for 25? each month three or four condensations (5,000-8,000 words) of current books, about eight shorter condensations or excerpts from other works. Book Digest pays publishers $100 for long condensations, runs no advertisements, claims 50,000 circulation. Publishers liked the idea, for they had noted increased sales of such books as Reader's Digest, pocket-size colossus, digested each month...
Powel Sr. wanted Powel Jr. to follow him into law. But young Crosley liked to tinker with automobiles. By 1906 he was a private chauffeur (although his father was a prosperous attorney). By 1909, at 23, he was president of an automobile manufacturing company. It was his idea to make a low-priced, six-cylinder car, but bad financing wrecked the venture and for eleven years he drifted from job to job, automobiles to advertising to gadgets...