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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terms of the N. I. P. A. offer the recipients positions for ten months from September 1939 to June 1940 with one of the major government departments in Washington. They will serve without compensation and will be expected to pay their own expenses...
While the WPAsters still worked on at their regular $94-a-month salary, the Illinois Symphony actually began to pile up a profit at the box office. The size of this profit put it in a different class from most other WPA orchestras, enabled it to pay the high performance royalties asked by such ace contemporary composers as Dmitri Shostakovich, Serge Prokofieff, Paul Hindemith, Jean Sibelius...
Only for the first few minutes does his shy, worried presence on the screen, in the midst of a cast of seasoned professionals like Paul Kelly, Robert Armstrong and Cora Witherspoon, threaten to be embarrassing. As the story proceeds, examining Corrigan's weary scrimpings to pay for flying lessons and then for his own plane; his painfully ineffectual efforts to become a transport pilot; finally, the well-planned exploit which brought him fame, his failings as an actor become the virtues of realism. Thus, The Flying Irishman is raised from the level of a routine Hollywood quickie to that...
During the making of The Flying Irishman, its star failed utterly to adjust himself to the behavior expected of an international celebrity. At his first studio press conference, he offended his employers by explaining that his pay was $50,000, after the studio had announced it as $100,000. Corrigan drove to & from the studio in his 1928 Franklin, once delayed shooting for 30 minutes when it broke down en route. His lunches in the commissary rarely cost more than 25?. Corrigan got his first view of The Flying Irishman last fortnight, week before its national release on St. Patrick...
...school, is mixed up in the affairs of the tobacco farmers' cooperative before he knows what it is to mean to him, to his pretty wife, or to the Trust. "Purposes and ideals of the Association," says a member, "is to make those son-a-bitching buyers pay me what my tobacco's worth...