Word: tabloidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem of the custody of the child of a divorced or aspirated couple; this is a predicament common enough, yet little discussed on the stage, and it would in the proper hands adapt itself to masterly treatment. In "Blonde Venus" this theme is ruined by lurid, florid, tabloid handing which carries the mother from the arms of her Husband, to stardom in a revue, to prostitution, to stardom in a revue, to prostitution, to stardom in a revue, and with the leit motif of "a little child shall lead them," back to the arms of her husband. The whole amounts...
...surprising when aged Mr. Curtis resigned last week as president of Curtis Publishing Co. (Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman), accepted the board chairmanship. So unsurprised was Philadelphia by the news that no newspaper there mentioned it-not even Curtis' own-except the tabloid Daily News, which he once tried to put out of business...
There, surely, was a newspicture of the month; but not for the august Times, which printed a stodgy shot of the Columbus Circle speechmakers. Through its .Wide World syndicate the Times offered exclusive morning paper rights to the print, sold it to the tabloid Daily News for $30. Evening rights went to Hearst's Jour nal which five-columned it beneath the caption: "The Camera Sees Love. Drama. Crime, Tragedy and Probable Death...
...Family Circle is a gravure-printed tabloid of 24 pages. It contains information about food, cinema, radio, fashions, cosmetics, also many illustrated jokes, fiction, advertising at $400 a page for separate units (Manhattan as one unit, Washington, Richmond, Baltimore as the others) or $700 a page for entire coverage. Such a compendium might be very sad were it not for the fact that Harry Evans writes most of the copy. It is a one-man magazine. He has a tremendous talent for making people like him, and among those who do are most of the nation's electric...
...with offers of alms Mr. Insull, whose pensions from utility companies which he once ruled total $18,000 a year, decided to end his incognito. To newsmen he snorted: "The very idea! Cooking my own meals! Why, I could not fry an egg! Not even the much abused American tabloid has ever served me in such fashion. I would call this going...