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...Disney (whose income already amounts to $400,000 a year) will share the profits. But Disney will give half his share to his staff composer and conductor, Frank Churchill, a tall shy Rumford, Me., native who is responsible for all the tunes that Mickey Mouse and the Disney animals jig to. Disney gives him a story in terms of line drawings and film frames. Churchill works out a score which must have a definite number of beats for each of the frames so that the sound-track will synchronize perfectly with the movies, which the chances are he never...
Just before he boarded Vincent Astor's Nourmahal to go fishing last week President Roosevelt appointed a Planning & Coordination Committee for the oil industry. It was the last big jig in the Government's design for oil's recovery. Congress had granted the President power to regulate oil shipped in interstate commerce. Oilmen had signed a code. Secretary of Interior Ickes had been named oil administrator. To oilmen most important of all was the P. C. C. Its 15 members would settle the key question of price-fixing. Checking off the appointees last week, oilmen soon...
...ponderable theme in Pigeons and People is the old one used by Playwright Cohan of yore, that the sane are insane and the insane sane. Beyond that Cohan comes out flatly in favor of "straightaway" thinking. Cohan theatre, Cohan jauntiness make what promises more into a dialectic jig and a first-rate farce...
...remaining shillings on a junket to Richmond Park, to have a nap on the grass. In the ladies' room she has luck enough to steal a purse, and when she gets home she finds a farewell present from George under her door. But she knows the jig is almost up. Authoress Jameson puts her to bed, watches her doze off. "The pulse in her arm lying on the dirty sheet is one of the stages of a mystery. Look once more and you can see how beautiful she is. Poor woman, let her sleep...
...leap, slide, fall forward and backward, accompanied only by a cymbal and the swish of their bodies against a slick blue floor; the same girls in an or- giastic interpretation of an oldtime Shaker meeting; a marionet show in which Alfred Emanuel Smith, Herbert Hoover and John Davison Rockefeller jig together with a chorus of little oil cans. Tunes: "Wouldja for a Big Red Apple?", "You're Not Pretty But You're Mine," "Satan's Little Lamb." When Ladies Meet (by Rachel Croth- ers; John Golden, producer). Everything Mary Howard (Frieda Inescort) did bore the hallmark...