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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cost of maintaining chains of theatres. It is harder to reduce invest ments in chains of theatres and the costs of running them than to reduce the costs of making pictures to fill them. Producers last year tried to make pictures for $200,000 each. Except Scarf ace, completed early in the year, there were almost none which cost more than $300,000; none, like Trader Horn, which cost $1,000,000 or more. All producers cut office salaries; most producers tried to cut the salaries of employes under contract. George Arliss and Richard Barthelmess reduced their own salaries. James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: State of the Industry | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...Defense (Columbia); Five Star Final and The Man Who Played God (First National, Warner); Bad Girl and Delicious (Fox); Tarzan and Grand Hotel (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer); Shanghai Express, and The Smiling Lieutenant (Paramount); The Lost Squadron and Common Law (RKO) ; Frankenstein and Spirit of Notre Dame (Universal). Scarf ace (United Artists) cost most ($800,000) to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: State of the Industry | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

Norwegian Bridal Procession by Grieg; Overture, "Fingal's Cave," by Mendelssohn; Waitz Number 15 by Brahms-Gericke; La Source, Ballet Suite, by Delibes, including Scarf Dance, Love Scene, Variation, and Circassion Dance; Scheherazade, Finale by Rimsky-Korsakov; Large by Handel (Solo violin--J. Theodorowicz, Harp, Organ, and Strings); Dance by Debussy, arranged by Ravel; "Of Thee I Sing" Selection, by Gershwin, "Loin du Bal" by Gillet; "Pomp and Circumstance" by Elgar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tonight's and Tomorrow's Pops | 5/20/1932 | See Source »

...Cleveland department stores last week offered the "Ballyhoo" scarf (with "Ballyhoo" clip), made with a crazy quilt design like the magazine's cover border. Also there are a Ballyhoo dress, necktie, cuff links, rings, night club (in Manhattan), song, game, birthday card, convalescent card, saloon (in Havana, formerly the American Bar), a statuet of Gandhi with a copy of Ballyhoo under his arm. Except for the game, all the other enterprises are independent of the publication which takes its royalties in the form of free advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Dirt Swept | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

Unfortunately for Harworth he is forced into choosing Molina (who strongly resembles Scarf ace Capone); he finds himself unwilling accessory to a killing, soon realizes that he is caught between the millstones of gang warfare. When Molina falls, Harworth goes with him. If cinema audiences continue to favor gang pictures, The Silver Eagle should make money as a film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fowler on Fallon | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

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