Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traffic lights, stalled motors, roads closed for repairs, slowing down on hills, running out of gas. Plays, as the old gag puts it. are not written but rewritten; not sold outright but leased around on options. Even a top-ranking author like Ernest Hemingway, with a spot-news play like The Fifth Column-treating of the Spanish civil war-gets jounced around on the rocky road to Broadway. The play, Hemingway's first,* was finished three months ago. Originally Producer Jed Harris was slated to produce it "after revisions by the author." "Revisions" caused an impasse, and suddenly Harris...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
Last week people had reason to recall the Kid again. For out of the liveliest family shindig Hollywood has staged since the Mary Astor case had come two amazing bits of news. The first was that out of his vast earnings Jackie Coogan had got virtually nothing. The other was that if his billowy, multichinned mother and his slick, slanty-eyed, beaky stepfather and former adviser, Arthur L. Bernstein, had anything to say about it, he never would...
This kind of talk was no news to Jackie. He heard it first nearly three years ago when, a few months after his father was killed in an automobile accident, he turned 21. Up to that day in October 1935, says Jackie, he managed to get along on a $6.25 weekly allowance. Day before his 21st birthday he got $1,000, heard his mother say next day, about the rest: "You haven't got a cent. There never has been one cent belonging to you. It's all mine." Year later Arthur Bernstein married Lillian Coogan...
...Frank Brett Noyes, publisher of the Washington Star, was elected president of the Associated Press. Each year since then, Mr. Noyes has been unanimously reelected. This week, nearing the age of 75, he retired. As head of a news-gathering agency whose 1,400 newspaper members make it one of the two greatest in the world, Frank Noyes for 38 years had carefully avoided expressing opinions on public questions. "Circumstances compel me to be an intellectual eunuch," he explained...