Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than a one-picture contract. Of their six pictures they, like the public, vote Love Me Tonight, with Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier, the best. There pours out of them an old familiar tale-of a Hollywood cockeyed, imbecile, exciting, exasperating. The medium: marvelous. The methods: terrible. "Music," they insist, "must be written for the camera. People can't just stand around and sing songs." For Rodgers, the usual experience was to hand in a score and, when the picture was produced, to find the score either missing or massacred. Once they worked for 15 months...
Professor Wiener belongs to the school of mathematicians who insist that the most abstract of studies be grounded in reality. His chief practical interest is the study of aeronautics, and last week at the semicentennial meeting of the American Mathematical Society he said: "It is a falsification of the history of mathematics to represent pure mathematics as a self-contained science drawing inspiration from itself alone and morally taking in its own washing." He then plunged eagerly into a discussion of his favorite field, harmonic analysis...
...Bankruptcy Act. Formerly, the practice was for underwriters to get a friendly creditor to bring suit in a friendly court, thus in effect pick their own receiver-who generally favored stockholders over bondholders; often railroads were in as bad shape after reorganization as before. Under Section 77, ICC can insist on its own reorganization terms or rewrite plans originally submitted. ICC accepted almost wholly the trustee's draft of the Great Western plan, which will take effect Jan. 1, 1939 if approved by the Federal Court in Chicago...
...British Government, although continuing to insist that Viscount Runciman arrived in Prague last week as a "purely private person," engaged a 15-room suite for him at the Alcron Hotel-long the favorite resort of Sudeten German politicians-and proceeded to pay all the bills...
...That in acquiring theatre chains the major producers avoided competing in the same territories and since their output is enough to keep all theatres comfortably full, they can and do exchange pictures and actors freely, meanwhile deny such privileges to independents except upon hard terms. 2) That they insist on block-booking, full-line forcing, high rentals. 3) That as a result, independents are being driven out of business, new competitors are effectively forestalled; independent theatres cannot exercise free choice of films; independent producers find it virtually impossible to market their films; new capital investment is discouraged; theatre patrons...