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...BUSY TO PAINT? CALL ON THE GHOST ARTISTS. WE PAINT IT-YOU SIGN IT, read an advertisement in the Washington Post last week. Explaining further, the ad said that Ghost Artists were well qualified to turn out work in almost any manner: primitive ("Grandma Moses type"), impressionist, modern, cubist and abstract...
...with it. But not for long: the Government realized that a show is as much of a wartime bracer as a whiskey-&-soda, soon permitted every theatre in London to stay open till 10:45 or 11 p.m. For months, with the war so quiet that-as a wag put it-you could hear a Ribbentrop, London's theatre functioned virtually as in peacetime, except for a boom in musical shows and a drop in prices...
Ghostwriters Bureau will tackle almost any topic. "We write it-YOU sign it" is their slogan. Ghosts Baer & Woods ex-newspaper reporters, do only the simpler forms of ghost writing: goodwill speeches, letters-to-the-editor, sales letters, etc. Other work they farm out on a fee basis to 200 writers on their list. Forty of these are professors at Columbia, Fordham, New York University. The rest are working newspapermen and assorted specialists. Rates range from 1½? a word for routine editing to 8? a word for articles on technical subjects requiring considerable research. They handle about 20 jobs...