Word: performer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME bought the series of half hours on CBS at $4,200 per period (plus $1,800 for actors, music, etc.) to perform a definite piece of advertising: to acquaint a larger public than its own logical readers with the existence of TIME, The Weekly Newsmagazine. (Theory: a magazine profits from general reputation.) In the opinion of TIME'S publishers the advertising purpose was well accomplished; further expenditure on radio at this time would not justify itself. Thus was raised a question of responsibility: Should TIME, or any other business, feel obliged to be the "philanthropist...
There can be little doubt that American agriculture is sadly in need of intelligent retrenchment and reorganization. Agricultural colleges are the logical nucleus for the development of such a movement. Certainly the examples of cultural state colleges in the west should suffice to convince them that they can perform no comparable service by the adoption of an A.B. degree. Such a course would tend to swell the growing number of the educated unemployed who have long since discovered that a sheepskin may cover a shorn lamb...
Most people know about the Mills Brothers now because they perform over the radio twice a week for Vapex. They sing in trick quartet fashion and when it pleases them they can simulate perfectly a tuba, a trumpet and a pair of saxophones. Their voices, unaided, are too small for vaudeville. But they use their radio technique, huddle around an amplifier-microphone...
Arliss, whose long-range eavesdroppings have previously prompted him to perform other sly philanthropies, releases her. When the picture ends he is strumming on an organ and apparently contemplating matrimony with a sympathetic widow (Violet Heming...
...Hatchet Man (First National). So convincingly did Edward G. Robinson perform in Little Caesar and Smart Money that he, rather than Alphonse Capone or the late John ("Legs") Diamond, has become the prototype of the U. S. gangster. When cinemaddicts read of the doings in the underworld, they form an immediate picture of Edward G. Robinson operating a machine gun in Chicago, a distillery in Manhattan or a poker game in a Florida casino. Actually, however, the countenance of Edward G. Robinson is less wicked than Mongolian. Shrewdly cast in this old (David Belasco-Achmed Abdullah) melodrama of San Francisco...