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...Buell (Harlem on the Prairie, TIME, Dec. 13) was last week collecting in Hollywood 200 midgets. Their assignment: an all-midget, musical Western, The Terror of Tiny Town. Quickest to follow Producer Buell's knee-high lead was Dr. Eugene Frenke, producer husband of Actress Anna Sten. His pint-sized project: Half-Buck Rides Again...
...start of this year's strawberry season, which lasts from March till the middle of May, James Morrison petitioned the National Chain Stores Association to forbid its members selling berries at less than 1½? profit a pint, 36? a crate. Last week Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. said it would do as Mr. Morrison's Farmers Union asked...
...nation of beer drinkers. Beer is a peaceful drink. Beer is the drink for the ordinary, kindly, simple workingman in the street-the man who can be found in millions all over the world. If he could get together with his fellows in other countries over a pint of beer, we should hear much less of dictators and all the other high and mighty political personages that at present bully and bewilder the ordinary man. In these unstable, quarrelsome days. I think I can give you a slogan for all peaceful, genial, companionable folks of all countries: 'Beer Drinkers...
There, bending over inky tables, amid torn newspapers, fried egg sandwiches, smudged proof sheets and pint milk bottles full of coffee, they read morning papers for late news items and about dawn put TIME...
...episodic drama with thumping success through a two-season Manhattan run. a meandering road tour. Last week in Chicago, Actress Hayes & company joined with a few Tovarich troupers for a busman's holiday. Their respite: a one-matinee performance of The Merchant of Venice, with Actress Hayes a pint-sized Portia, Abraham Sofaer her Disraeli, as Shylock. Explanation: 1) Actress Hayes had always wanted to play Shakespeare; 2) the company had been playing Victoria so long they were fit to be tied. So good a time was had by all that four more such escapades were immediately scheduled...