Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such economists as Thomas Robert Malthus and John Stuart Mill in the 19th Century and John Maynard Keynes in the 20th, the world did not seem so full. Any economic system, said the Mill school, would either become static or it would fail to provide for its own. Lesser Cassandras, including New Dealers, have foretold the depletion of the world's oil and coal reserves, the exhaustion of soils, have pronounced the U.S. economy to be "mature," i.e., incapable of further expansion. Most of these experts offered some laws whereby, they held, a limited number of things could...
...Producer Sol Lesser confessed to TIME'S Hollywood correspondent: "That's something we overlooked. Do you think we ought to put out a trailer showing a marriage ceremony...
...Jolla pays its top stars an Equity minimum wage (lesser names get their regular price), sticks to a modest budget and limits itself to one set per production. But sometimes Hollywood will out. When Jennifer Jones starred last season in Serena Blandish, Angel Selznick insisted on surrounding his favorite actress (later to become his wife) with a cast that included Cinemactor Louis Jourdan and such polished stage veterans as Constance Collier, Mildred Natwick and Reginald Owen. He also insisted on gowns by Jacques Fath and five sets. The show drew capacity crowds throughout its run-and lost several thousand dollars...
With a chest thump and ape warble, Tarzan will start vine-swinging from the lianas for the 26th time next week. In Tarzan and the Slave Girl, Producer Sol Lesser is giving the tenth and current Tarzan (Lex Barker) a new mate-probably Vanessa Brown. But the script will hold close to the tried & true line that has enchanted three decades of romantics and grossed around $3,000,000 a picture. Tarzan has been the most durable and successful series in movie history...
...Jane are married (they are not). Fans also want to know the origin of Tarzan's child (he was found in the jungle, of course), and how Tarzan and Jane happen to be living together in a tree house without benefit of clergy. Says Producer Lesser, loftily: "It has never been suggested that Tarzan and Jane share the same...