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That Westerns seldom appear now at large first-run theatres by no means indicates that they are obsolete. A dozen producing companies subsist upon profits from such pictures. B 'n' B, Ambassador, Exploitation, Golden State, Willis Kent, Principal, Stage & Screen, William Steiner and Superior together have 80 on their 1934-35 schedules. Less in demand west of the Mississippi. Westerns are greedily patronized in the South. They are particularly popular in Washington, D. C. Outstanding producer of Westerns, Monogram will make eight this year, 16 next-mostly on a ranch belonging to Trem Carr, the studio...
...year, the Committee must find some solution. What is this to be? Is Harvard to send its scouts to the high schools in search of potential All-American material and to have its football squad practice until 6.30 o'clock every day? Or, is Harvard to continue to subsist on the scanty fare of an annual victory over New Hampshire? Either alternative is undesirable in the extreme, and it is the task of the Committee to find a path that will lead between these poles on some middle course. That is, it must develop a policy which will bring...
...tried all the known diets to rid himself of nervous dyspepsia: vegetarian, raw meat, raw vegetables, nuts. milk. But he could probably subsist on publicity alone. It is meat and drink to him. He is not much of a businessman. In one breath he says that his publishing business brings him in more than the $10,000 salary of California's Governor. In the next he swears he has less than $150 in the bank. Fact is, the Sinclairs are still floundering in insolvency as a result of financing Director Sergei Eisenstein's Thunder Over Mexico, Upton...
...week at a total cost of $2.24. That sum bought potatoes, pork, lamb, canned milk, butter, flour, rice, prunes and eggs. But no fruit, cereal or fresh milk. Those were the foods, that the amount, on which Hartford social workers last week hoped indigent Hartford families could subsist...
...typically furious crusade. The conp-de-grâce came in 1917 when the State Supreme Court upheld a Red-light Abate ment Act, permitting the city to proceed in civil court against owners of property used for immoral purposes. For a few gloomy years "the Coast" tried to subsist on tourist trade by pretending to be tough and bawdy; but its harlots had been driven out of the district. "Now, of course," says good-humored Author Asbury, ''San Francisco has no prostitutes...