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Word: studioful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only four questions. Did Cole's defiance of Congress bring him into "public hatred"? Did he "offend" the public? Did he "prejudice" his employers? Did M-G-M forfeit the right to break his contract because it waited a full month to fire him? Said Yankwich: "If the studio knew, when Cole came back from Washington, what his conduct had been there and nevertheless continued to reimburse him, then I instruct you that M-G-M then waived its right to take action against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: No Offense | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

While they waited for the little czar to arrive, nine headliners from the Metropolitan Opera House were marking time in Victor's Studio One (formerly a horse auction barn). Some of them clustered at the piano and timidly tried out the unfamiliar words of the oldtime fox-trot I'm Just Wild About Harry. The 11½-month-old recording ban was over (see BUSINESS), and RCA Victor publicity men had chosen as Victor's first record a Christmas message for Harry Truman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: One for Harry | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

When the gag was over, Perry Como rushed into Studio Two, where an all-string orchestra awaited him. A few moments later they were lurching through the Missouri Waltz, a Truman inauguration special which was Victor's first commercial disc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: One for Harry | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...Columbia Records, there was much less hoopla. Their new Manhattan recording studio, a converted church, was as sparsely peopled as an English cathedral at evensong. A hundred-odd lights, suspended like enormous inverted flowers from the beamed ceiling, illuminated a small group of bored musicians, engineers and minor officials. A poker game was started, and Arthur Godfrey, who had been called in to cut some corn named I'm Going Back to Whur I Come From, "noodled," as he called it, on the studio organ. When word came that the ban was over, Columbia, undistracted by bigwigs and publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: One for Harry | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

Last week, the heads of all the studios had called a conference to face these grim issues, wrestle with them and perhaps make a public announcement. The meeting was postponed-to some vague future date. The black basic facts of the Hollywood depression have not changed, but suddenly it is no longer fashionable to talk hard times. Studio chiefs admit that there were only 36 feature pictures in production last week-but instead of comparing that with the 49 of two years ago, they prefer to remember that this time last year there were only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All Is Bright | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

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