Word: shoestringing
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Room Service (by John Murray & Allen Boretz; George Abbott, producer) does for shoestring theatrical producing what Producer Abbott's Boy Meets Girl did for Hollywood and his Three Men On A Horse did for horse racing. It pumps its subject full of fun in veterinary doses. Than this pinchbeck...
Died. Percy Lee ("Don't Call Me Percy") Gassaway, 51, Oklahoma's romping onetime (1935-36) "Cowboy Congressman"; of heart disease; in Coalgate, Okla. Celebrated for his ten-gallon hat, shoestring tie and wing collar, "Ol' Gass" declared that every judge should have at least five years...
The career of cigar-smoking, 42-year-old Irving Mills began on Manhattan's East Side. As a youth he was a page at the vaudevillians' Friars Club, of which he is now a member. Young Irving got into song-plugging, went on into shoestring music publishing with...
Completing the bill is a piece called "Hideaway Girl", which has no right to be amusing, though once in a while it is. The plot, strung together like an united shoestring, concern a girl (Shirley Ross) who pinches pearls at a wedding, eludes the police, picks up a playboy (Robert...
Last week, the founder-stockholders scanned their annual financial report with satisfaction. That the breadline had become remote as Mars was evident when they observed that their News-Herald started with a $5,000 shoestring, now had 103 employes earning a $125,000 annual payroll, 250 carriers earning $3,000...