Word: silos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day, to make his own principles articulate, Archbishop Mooney summoned all the 542 priests of his archdiocese-including one whose parish work is something of a side line, and whose love for labor is not great, Rev. Charles Edward ("Silo Charlie"*) Coughlin. As a starter in helping "Christian workers to train themselves in principle and technique to assume the leadership in the unions which their numbers justify," Archbishop Mooney proposed founding parish labor schools. Such schools, he said, might "sift the good from the bad in labor proposals, and be the defenders of sound, constructive union activity against . . . Communistic...
...audience while they act. For cinema stars, summer theatres, although the pay is small, have the advantage of allowing them to satisfy their desire for immediate attention without exposing themselves to Broadway dramatic critics whose comments might reduce their cinema earning power. Noteworthy cinemactors of this year's silo season are: Kitty Carlisle in her debut as a straight actress in French Without Tears (White Plains, N. Y.) ; Paulette Goddard in French Without Tears (Dennis, Mass.); Jean Muir in Much Ado About Nothing, High Tor (Schenectady and Suffern, N. Y.); Mary Brian in Honey (Dennis, Mass.) ; Douglass Montgomery...
...there were 105 summer theatres of all kinds, mostly scattered along the eastern seaboard from Skowhegan, Me., to Arden, Del. By last year there were 145. This year, Variety (which callously calls the summer theatre the "straw-hat stage," summer theatre actors "hayfoots" and "silo stagers"), lists 150. The summer theatre's gross is now about $5,000,000 in its annual three-month season. In 1936, Actors Equity Association divided professional summer theatres into Classes A & B, which are the only summer theatres in which Equity members may perform. Class A companies, of which there were 35 last...
...week, but most willingly take much less. Less celebrated Equity members average $40 a week. Authors whose plays are performed in summer theatres get minute fees, because the smaller the gross receipts, the smaller the author's take. Top money-making item of last year's silo stage was Tonight at Eight-Thirty, which took in about $50,000. This year, Yes, My Darling Daughter is likely to do a little better...
...farm, how his Plattsburg teachers had dismissed it as "only fair," how at first he did not believe his good fortune until Eddie Cantor confirmed the news on the air. To newshawks he drawled: "I'm going to the Empire State, to see how much corn the big silo will hold." Two nights later Comedian Cantor proudly produced Lloyd on his Pebeco broadcast...