Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basic wage of about $25 for a 15-minute stint, rehearsals included. Featured Artists Service, Inc., the Hummert casting agency, pays a basic $12.50 but rehearsals are briefer than most and great numbers of players get fairly steady work (a serial can hold out as long as a sponsor can). But American Federation of Radio Artists (A. F. of L. affiliated) insists that this is not reason enough for half-pay. Last week A. F. R. A., having failed for a year to negotiate minimums of $15 a 15-minute program, $6 for the first rehearsal hour...
Ronald Colman, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, José Iturbi, Groucho and Chico Marx (Sun. 10 p. m. NBC-Red) in a new-style Hollywood radio bee called The Circle. Actor Colman is president. Actress Lombard secretary, Actor Grant beadle (party whip), Kellogg's Corn Flakes sponsor. Last week, at the first meeting, the talk got around to poetry, fur coats, sweet potatoes...
...California's Downey, sponsor of crack-pated "Ham & Eggs" ($30 every Thursday pension plan), was assigned to the committee on Banking & Currency...
Major Chester E. Sargent will sponsor his varsity malletmen in a match with the local Satirev trio as the regular Commonwealth Armory League begins its three-month season tomorrow night...
...plan to remove restrictions on the hours of employes who get over $150 a month, have guaranteed annual vacations and other privileges, yet are not now exempt as executives or professionals. Whether his own legal division would prepare such an amendment, or whether he would leave businessmen to sponsor the change, Elmer Andrews...