Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Browne's Willie Bioff appeared in Hollywood, and soon they were mighty figures in cinema. In 1936, Mr. Browne in Manhattan worked out a deal with the Hays office whereby I. A. T. S. E. won a closed-shop bargaining contract for its Hollywood technicians, absorbed and squelched other unions and within 18 months acquired 12,000 members. Last year Willie Bioff admitted (to a grand jury) that after this bargain was struck, he received $100,000 as a loan from a prominent producer.* Willie Bioff, receiving a year's salary and effusive thanks from Mr. Browne...
...fall of 1932 a jobless salesman named Mortimer Glankoff, who was eating on a borrowed $100, began distributing to Manhattan's West Side apartment dwellers a 12-page throwaway called Naborhood Theatre Guide. Salesman Glankoff had a trusting printer and he got doormen to distribute his Guide by bribing them with movie passes. Within a year he was selling enough advertising to hire as editor one Jesse Zunser, a footloose free lancer whose candid comments on plays and films soon gave Naborhood Theatre Guide a small reputation among half-a-dozen similar guides. By 1934 Glankoff's little...
...information about everything from radio programs to de luxe cruises, Cue this week became a full-size (7 ⅞ x 11 ¼ in.) magazine and published its first national edition. The national edition went out to some 9,000 out-of-town subscribers who had been taking the Manhattan edition...
...commodity that often sells better second-hand than new. One landmark witness to this fact has been Manhattan's American Art Association-Anderson Galleries. For years most U. S. art fanciers who were creating new collections, and sometimes their lawyers and agents who were dispersing old collections, have been seen in the Galleries' staid brick building on Madison Avenue at the southeast corner of Manhattan's esthetic 57th Street...
...owner immediately sailed for Europe, leaving the business in charge of its old employes. One day in London he ran into Mitchell Kennerley. Kennerley (who had been a publisher) was owner of another big Manhattan auction house-the Anderson Galleries. Bishop asked him whether he would like to sell the Anderson Galleries. Mr. Kennerley agreed (for $500,000) and the two firms were merged in October...