Word: olsen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Salute to 1939 (Sun. 2 p.m. NBC-Red, Blue) by Kirsten Flagstad, Ezio Pinza, Walter Hampden, Eva Le Gallienne, Walter Damrosch, Olsen and Johnson, Larry Clinton's orchestra on a special two-hour Magic Key program...
Hellzapoppln (produced by Olsen & Johnson) is a cross between a fire in a lunatic asylum and the third clay at Gettysburg. Billed as a "screamlined revue," it roars into action with bullets, bombs and sounds of heavy artillery backstage. Radios blare, sound films boom, gorillas growl, vendors hawk tickets for rival shows, people race across the stage, plunge down the aisles, dive among the audience, ride horseback in boxes...
TIME'S answer to observant TIME-&-Chronicle Reader Olsen (TIME, Aug. 1) that book stores do not commonly include juveniles on their best-seller lists to newspapers, explained precisely why Ferdinand has not appeared on the Chronicle's, list. The Emporium, unlike many of its customers, considers Ferdinand a juvenile...
...Olsen has put his finger squarely on one of the tender spots in book-publishing, bookselling and book-page-editing. With its sales-figures reports from bookstores, TIME can manage the cold truth, though not weekly. Newspaper book-pages must rely on impressions served up as facts by worried booksellers who, only human, may sometimes let the wish father the thought. Might not TIME at its convenience poll a) book-publishers, b) booksellers, c) book-editors to ascertain whether they do not, like Pearl Buck, regard this best-seller business as half nuisance and half outright thimbleriggery...
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