Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admirable Crichton straight out of Sir James Barrie's play. With meticulous calm he saved 23 people by shepherding them, including the Countess de Fontnouvelle (wife of the French consul-general) and her infant, into the Ottman house, signaling for help from the roof with a bed sheet. At the storm's height he reported to the house guests: "I am sure that our signal was observed, but the situation is most disturbing and perhaps I should venture outside and bring help from the mainland." He then fought his way through the storm to find three stout lads...
According to Rodgers & Hart, Hollywood's trouble is stupidity, not malice. "And you can no more resent stupidity in a movie director than in an elevator boy." Headline boner where they were concerned came when, in the sheet music made for Mississippi, Swanee River was credited to "Rodgers & Hart." They differ concerning Hollywood's financial rewards. Hart believes they could make more money there than on Broadway, but prefers to forego it because he loves the theatre. Rodgers feels that a Hollywood income may be more certain but that only in the theatre can musicomedy writers really strike...
Rodgers & Hart enjoy today that special blessing which befalls successful songwriters, of having money rain in from all sides-from royalties on shows, from the sale of shows to Hollywood and foreign countries, from sheet music, from gramophone records, from radio recitals, from having their music played by bands. On shows they get 6% of the gross, which means about $750 a week apiece if a show is a hit. Their biggest money-maker was The Girl Friend which played all over the world. In Hollywood they got $50,000 to $60,000 a movie. And from the American Society...
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., sixth largest U. S. Steel producer, $30,000,000 in 4% convertible debentures-$12,500,000 to repay bank loans, $17,500,000 for expansion. The issue, postponed when it was first proposed last October, sold sluggishly. Underwriters headed by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and Smith, Barney & Co. were said to have nearly $4,500,000 left on their hands...
Producer Davenport keeps his playhouse going by the sale of a few reserved seats and by passing the hat during intermissions. Most nights, during the final intermission, Davenport steps before the curtain draped in a sheet, harangues the audience for 15 or 20 minutes. The theatre is unqualifiedly his to run. He chooses plays, writes them, directs them. He also stokes the furnace and sweeps the aisles...