Word: papering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then I decided to start a paper, in March of '38. I had been in court, I had listened to several cases, I thought some of the stuff was very humorous. When you read it in the daily papers they seemed to take the whole thing serious. It didn't appear very serious to me, if a man was chasing a prostitute through an alley, a policeman chasing a prostitute through an alley, or two or three of them, jumping over barrels and she climbing over fences, trying to capture a girl for soliciting or something like that, I thought...
...started out as the Midtown Journal. I put out the first issue; prior to that I had gone around solicited some advertising. In those days papers were selling for three cents a copy. I got a few ads, I got $30 to $40 worth of advertising, but I was always short of enough money to pay the printers. I was out at work nights, dancing in these barrooms. You could pick up $80 to $90 a week there, so I was putting my money into the paper to get the paper rolling. It got rolling along in about...
Finally a tremendous buildup started in the paper, it really started to build up awfully fast about '46, '47. It was during the war, I sent out a lot of papers to the various camps; and these boys--I got a lot of letters from them, and subscriptions...
Then I decided to sell the paper. It was kind of discouraging at first, and I put them off to sale at three cents a copy. I think the first week I sold 25 papers. I cut the printing down to a thousand papers, and even then got most of them back. But the following week I sold fifty, and that was a hundred per cent increase. So I kept going by percentages, and before I knew it I was doing five thousand a week. That was in the early forties, '42. Then we were up to 8000, then...
...cast, who has the inhuman burden of providing everything Dear World's creators have omitted, cannot be blamed for the show's failure. Neither can Peter Glenville, the director, who has contributed some nice group blocking--an achievement that doesn't mean much when the stage is full of paper dolls...