Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Company still retains its place as the foremost ballet group in the world. The productions are exceedingly satisfying both to the eye and ear, and the orchestra which accompanies the dancers is not the least part of their success. The opportunity offered by this visit is one to take advantage of--for this is an art which is best appreciated by itself without the encumbrance of opera...
...proof that Producer Abbott's sympathetic impulses are guided by a hard head or a hot hunch, Broadway wiseacres pointed to his phenomenal success with last season's Room Service, which he sold to RKO Radio for $255,000. Room Service was a washed-up play property when unknown Playwrights John Murray & Allen Boretz brought it to Abbott. Sam Harris had tried it out in Philadelphia two years earlier with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer money. It was a $23,000 flop; When the Harris option lapsed, Abbott looked at the script, felt warmly toward it because it was about...
...while he was with Armour, whose founder, Philip Danforth Armour, a parishioner of his father's, had promised to make George Lorimer a millionaire, that he gained the experience which enabled him to select the conservative articles on business, the personal experiences and success stories for which Satevepost became famous. When he had trouble getting the material he wanted, Editor Lorimer wrote it himself, among his best efforts being the shrewd and practical Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. Contemptuous of things highbrow, Editor Lorimer developed the current commercial, snapper-ending short-story technique...
...August 1929 Waddill Catchings was rated a brilliant economist and success, the former because of his co-authorship of The Road to Plenty, which predicted a perpetual upward spiral of prices & profits, the latter because as the self-made head of Goldman, Sachs Trading Corp.., he was a millionaire many times over and the floater of Wall Street's two most spectacular investment trusts, Shenandoah and Blue Ridge. When they collapsed with Depression, Waddill Catchings, by then a director of 29 corporations, left Goldman, Sachs, has since been associated with Millionaire Harrison Williams whose North American Co. with...
Wired Radio, Inc., out of which Muzak Corp. grew in 1934, had been incorporated in 1922, was about ready to start opera tions when Depression intervened. Mean while, similar enterprises achieved an enormous success in Europe. The process (whose U. S. name of Muzak is a trade mark perversion of Music) consists merely of playing transcribed music in a central bureau and delivering it by telephone wires to subscribers who hear it through loud speakers. New York City at present is the sole U. S. spot to enjoy Muzak and ordinary citizens enjoyed it there long before tycoons, because...