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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which the San Francisco Fair must pay off to break even is only about 10% of the $50,000,000 invested in the Exposition. There are few figures to show whether the exhibitors who spent an estimated $13,000,000, the State which gave $5,000,000, and the Federal Government which spent $1,500,000 will get their money's worth. But there are data which indicate what the contributors of $6,000,000 to the Exposition corporation are getting in the form of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Regilded Gate | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...least $100,000,000 of new business. For this a quiet, gangling Texan named Clyde Milner Vandeburg (32), director of Fair promotion, and his assistant, beaming Crompton Bangs Jr. (29), former G-Man are largely responsible. Two years ago Promoter Vandeburg talked Fair managers into selling their Big Show rs a peg on which to hang a national campaign of travel to eleven far-western States instead of merely plugging San Francisco. To tie the westward movement into a national travel merry-go-round between the two U. S. fairs, Vandeburg went East to see Grover Whalen, impresario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Regilded Gate | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...casting, directing, dabbling with radio tricks and sound effects, in a Saturday night play series specializing in "emotional conflict." To last Saturday's, NBC paid special attention, giving a full hour for the first time, and using the NBC symphony orchestra for the first time in a dramatic show. Reason: sixtyish Alia Nazimova, Stanislavsky-trained, Ibsenite and cinema siren, had been won to radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Genius's Hour | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Grey-bobbed Nazimova took to the microphone like a trouper reclaimed for a Billy Rose floor show, emoted copiously in black slacks in an audience-less studio, wasted wordily away at the finish like a traditional Camille. Mightily pleased with the play, the playwright and a medium which let her hold most of the stage for a full hour without a single program or gum wrapper crackling, Alia Nazimova let out a secret. "Always," she confessed, "I have hated audiences. Always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Genius's Hour | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Walter Winchell and plucked the youthful Eddie Cantor out of a knife-throwing act, The Star Maker has as its frame the similar career of Larry Earl (Bing Crosby). Like Impresario Edwards, Larry goes on mopping up with his moppets until a children's protective society forcibly shows him the error of his ways. By that time Larry has uncovered practically everything the U. S. has to show in the way of juvenile talent from miniature tap dancers to a 14-year-old coloratura soprano (Linda Ware), who is good enough to sing with Walter Damrosch (Walter Damrosch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Sep. 4, 1939 | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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