Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disney's Folly. Wary Hollywood, which scoffed at sound ten years ago, scoffed at the idea of a seven-reel animated cartoon. The Snow White project was referred to as Disney's Folly. Rivals said he had bought a sweepstakes ticket. Shrewd older Brother Roy Disney, the business brain trust of the Disney enterprises, surveyed Snow White's final bill of $1,600,000, observed: "We've bought the whole damned sweepstakes." In the Disney film, Snow White, the delicate stepdaughter of the Queen, is a dark-haired girl with a doll's oval beauty...
...Each paper owns half the stock in the operating company, of which Mr. Stahlman is chairman, Mr. Evans president. Competition ceases, for the Tennessean has dropped its evening paper, the Banner its Sunday paper. Editorial departments retain full autonomy. Nashville carries one step farther the plan used by Publisher Roy Howard in co-operation with Scripps-Howard's Albuquerque and El Paso competitors, insists that national advertisers must use space in both the Banner and Tennessean...
Loud-shirted John Jay Price, long chief cameraman for the extinct New York World, since 1927 operator of his own news picture service in Manhattan, is now rated by Publisher Roy Wilson Howard as "one of the country's outstanding news photog-raphers." Two years ago, however, Jack Price angered clannish press photographers by writing in Editor & Publisher: "Photography is no longer the specialized profession, requiring many years to master. Any reporter can make a really good picture within a short time if he will give a little care and attention to a camera...
...remarkably good state show saves the evening from being a total wash-out. Twelve diving beauties of the Lottie Mayer Disappearing Water Ballet submerge themselves in a fascinating manner; Hal Le Roy taps far better than it has been Boston's privilege to enjoy for some time, and three unknown young ladies throw themselves all over the stage with amazing abandon...
Chosen as bargaining agents for the kitchen force, bus boys, and waitresses of the seven House dining halls, representatives of the A. F. of L. yesterday met with Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University, and Roy L. Westcott, Manager of University Dining Halls, to discuss possible wage rises and union recognition...