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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Opera Company, in the 1936-37 competition tried and failed again. That summer she sang with the St. Louis Municipal Opera. Last season appendicitis kept her out. This season she sang in two Broadway flops, felt that her experience had been rounded out, tried again. Successful, she expects to start with roles like Musetta, Micaela, is confident she can make her $1,000 prize money go a long way because "I am rather a frugal fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Winners | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...current trend in U. S. cinema is biography. Biographical cinema got off to a good start three years ago when Warner Bros. made The Story of Louis Pasteur, followed it with The Life of Emile Zola. At Twentieth Century-Fox, Darryl Zanuck played up the vogue with such million-dollar footnotes to history as Lloyd's of London, In Old Chicago, Suez, Jesse James and Alexander Graham Bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dancing Girl | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

After two years skull practice on what a modern newspaper should be, Publisher Ingersoll this week goes over to his new team to start scrimmage and whip it into shape for a public appearance "whenever it's ready-say in six months or a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Team | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Manhattan, writing a market letter for 300 clients and charging as much as $2,500 a year for market advice. One afternoon last week, just as stock prices began cascading, boardrooms began buzzing with the report that the Major, anticipating "pandemonium," had wired his clients that the selling would start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: On the Spot | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Pikeville (pop. 3,376), in the drab, hilly, coal-mining country at Kentucky's eastern point, its First National Bank is a wonder that never pales. First National's employes, who start at $85 a month and get four-week vacations, try "to treat each customer as if he was their mother or father or sister or brother." All day every day, customers are entertained not only by the organ but by a 23-tube radio phonograph, playing in subdued tones requests ranging from Toscanini to Whiteman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Toscanini to Whiteman | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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