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...medium. The first of six Guild-NBC productions, a full-dress treatment of John Ferguson* was presented over NBC. Each play would require four weeks of production, unmentionable costs (mostly paid by NBC). Said Guildsman Lawrence Langner: "We want to communicate culture, not nonsense; to elevate television from the saloon to the living room...
...exercise and a mine-owner for love of the game. In Virginia City he spent his evenings at a gymnasium taking on all comers for three bruising rounds each. His regimen was rare in a town where for a time every other building on the main street was a saloon, and where the brothels were the pride of the West. With another of Virginia City's diversions, however, Mackay was thoroughly at home, and that was speculation in mining stocks...
Although library officials reported a slackening of intellectual activity, local saloon keepers jingled cash-registers to an October high. "This is good beer weather," one purveyor said...
...should recognize with humility that the cinema does a great deal more than the church to keep young people off the streets and out of the saloon bar. Perhaps gangster films have led to some increase in juvenile crime, but the normal child cheers the forces of the law.... It is no part of the church's duty to abolish occasions of temptation to the few if their general effect is salutary. Gangster films bring the element of adventure into the drab routine of a city...
...very little shooting. No longer need the upperclassmen trudge, with quiet desperation, to the same seat behind the same pillar for all six games. No more shall the guest from far distant places arrive to find no ticket, a much chagrined host, and a dreary afternoon in some saloon...