Word: seasonally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy's undefeated lacrosse team: its annual June week game with Army, 10-to-3; its eighth victory in a row this season; clinching its claim to the U. S. intercollegiate championship; before 3,000 spectators; in Michie Stadium, West Point...
Main idea of a cinema sales convention is to put the coming season's production program over with a bang. At one of this year's conventions the spirit of Hollywood enterprise was neatly summed up by firing tommy guns loaded with blanks. At other conventions, this year's plans for some 500 feature pictures, to cost some $150,000,000, were introduced with less noise, no less ballyhoo. By last week salesmen were visiting the nation's 16,558 exhibitors, talking up next season's shows. Under the block-booking blind-selling system...
...exhibitors met them with more determined sales resistance than ever before. In the season just closing, exhibitors had heard far too often the ugly noises made by disapproving audiences; their pocketbooks were feeling pinched. Some exhibitors thought the trouble lay with stars who seemed to be "boxoffice poison" (TIME, May 16). Most of them knew the real trouble: inferior pictures. Meanwhile the Government has cast a quizzical eye over Hollywood's trade practices. While film circles last week rumored that the $2,000,000,000 cinema industry was slated for official arraignment, a Hollywood lobby in Washington fought...
...does so to give proper setting to Hollywood's greatest star roster, to produce most of Hollywood's best jobs, many of its stuffiest. Over last fiscal year, Loew's Inc. topped the cinemindustry with a net income of $14,426,062. In the coming season, MGM's schedule calls for 52 films, to include Northwest Passage, with Robert Taylor; The Women, with Norma Shearer; The Citadel, in production in England to satisfy the new British quota law (TIME, April 11); Kim, with Freddie Bartholomew; and Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence...
...right to distribute Walt Disney's animated cartoons. Otherwise it is most noted for Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire musicals, serious and thankless ventures like Winterset, The Informer. Now in the throes of reorganization, RKO has held no conventions, has announced only that it will make 54 features next season. For 1937, the corporation's net income totaled $1,821,166, a drop of over $600,000 from the previous year. On picture production it lost $236,909, made most of its profit from its theatre chain...