Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Companion films are "Damsel In Distress," a P. G. Wodehouse offering, and "Spy Ring." The first stars Fred Astaire and the silly pair, George Burns and Gracie Allen. Astaire is as debonair as ever and his dancing clover. The picture ranks as first rate entertainment if you don't mind the silly...
...have 2,200 "Who Cares" members. Our few Negroes are fine citizens. As for churches, we have Mormon, Episcopal, Baptist, Community, Catholic, and Church of God, but none are too well attended. Our water system is municipally owned and we pay 10? per kilowatt for electricity. The birth rate is too low, there being 3.1 children to a Thermopolis family. We have many professional women but none of Dr. Thorndike's suggested doctors or clergy. We have four card parlors, eight saloons, and the world's largest hot springs in addition to other cities' General Goodness...
...dealer but the artist who pays for the gallery show by which public and critical attention is attracted to his work. Usual cost: anywhere from $150 for a modest show to $500 for a big one with a cocktail party preview. About the lowest price on a first-rate U. S. painting last year was $100. The highest price of the year was asked by Peter Blume for his three-year job The Eternal City: $15,000. Average price of an average painting by one of the top 20 or 30 U. S. painters is between...
...Roderick Seidenberg, who designed The New Yorker Hotel, the detail work was done by a mazy mass of unemployed newspapermen, poets, graduates of schools of journalism who had never had jobs, authors of unpublished novels, high-school teachers, people who had always wanted to write, a sprinkling of first-rate professional writers who were down on their luck...
...parts of the world is fast disappearing. Thousands of songs and drum rhythms handed down through generations of woolly-headed blacks, Oriental priests and court musicians (even by U. S. Indians, hillbillies and Negroes in the South and West) are already extinct. Causes of this high mortality rate: the phonograph and the radio. Primitive races find old-fashioned radio sets somewhat fragile for jungle use. But cheap, hand-cranked squeak-boxes with chipped records of American cowboy songs and Italian operas are found today in mud-walled villages from Timbuktu to Singapore. Impressed by this mechanical magic, natives imitate...