Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away in his vault while, behind his back, a hand reaching through the window grabbed a stack of banknotes from a table. "While you're busy saving pennies you're losing dollars," read the ad. On page 14 the Miscellany department carried the following item: "In Detroit, Theater Cashier Doris Trask dropped a penny, stooped to pick it up, straightened to discover that somebody had reached in her cage, snatched...
...Petrillo had already begun his war on canned music. Talking pictures had thrown 18,000 U.S. theater musicians out of work. Petrillo listened to radio broadcasts of recorded music as though he heard the rumble of doom. "Electric refrigerators put the iceman out of work," he screamed, "but the iceman didn't have to make them. The musician is being asked to destroy himself." In 1936, unabashed by the fact that he was simply the head of one local union, he announced that union musicians would no longer make records in Chicago. He also forced radio stations to hire...
Another kids a Park Avenue theater...
Cornetist Jimmy MacPartland, who sparked the jazz revival in a smoke-filled joint in the Loop called the Brass Rail Theater Bar (TIME, May 5), had moved to a new Loop bar, and taken his followers along, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin...
Nevertheless, there was hope that things were not so dark as Hollywood thought. Last week Britain was still trying to work out a deal to modify the effects of the tax, lest it wreck Britain's own theater business and seriously weaken Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank's empire just when he has a chance to earn some badly needed dollars (TIME, Dec. 21). And no matter how Hollywood feared the bark of pressure groups, the bite had not yet proved painful. Among the two big moneymakers of 1947, according to Variety, were David O. Selznick's Duel...