Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other lists, compiled from booksellers' reports of the most widely-selling titles without sales figures, do not show the relative popularity of fiction and nonfiction. 2) Most best-seller lists are limited to current novels and works of nonfiction, exclude children's books and reprints, which are included in TIME's list. Last month in the book department of San Francisco's Emporium, Ferdinand sold five times as many copies as The Yearling, although its total national sales are not equal to those of the ten national best-sellers...
...Federal Fine Arts Commission did not like the original design (TIME, May 2), insisted on a new style of lettering on the coin, on changes in the detail of Thomas Jefferson's head on the obverse, on Artist Felix Schlag's redesigning the reverse so as to show Jefferson's home Monticello in front view instead of side view. After dies for a new coin are complete it takes five weeks till enough can be minted for simultaneous release throughout...
...Stations KFI and KECA (NBC's Los Angeles affiliates) refused to donate time for broadcasting the world premiere of Marie Antoinette from Hollywood's Carthay Circle, demanded that M-G-M pay regular commercial rates for the air time. NBC took the program as a network sustaining show, but KFI and KECA won their point. They were the only stations paid to carry it. Said KFI-KECA General Manager Harrison Holliway: "A can of celluloid is the same as a can of beans...
...minimum pay schedules range from a low of $8 for choral group singers on a 15-minute broadcast in California to a high of $25 for soloists on a full-hour show in New York or on a national network. It also provides: a limit on rehearsal time (maximum 8 hours for a 60-minute broadcast); extra pay for rehearsal overtime; pay for auditions. The contract recognizes A. F. R. A. as exclusive bargaining agency for sustaining artists in the cities affected (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco), establishes a modified closed shop.* guarantees that origination point of network...
Holding no television broadcasting license. Educator-Entrepreneur Evans carries his pictures from M. I. T.'s second-story studio to its street-level showroom by wire. Amateur talent on the first show included Boston's Mayor Maurice Joseph Tobin. Professional performers will be hired only if the box office take is large enough to pay salaries. President Evans does not expect his theatre to survive Boston's first curiosity to see television pictures. Said he: "I've always practiced the reduction of ideas to practice...