Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Cinema Producer Joseph Schenck went to Florida last winter, he said his purpose was to look over studio sites for the companies of which he is president-United Artists and Twentieth Century, youngest and liveliest of the producing units whose pictures United Artists distributes (TIME, March 18). All but credulous Florida boosters supposed that his real purpose was to help the industry scare the California Legislature out of passing a proposed 35% income-tax bill. In Florida, Producer Schenck conferred with President Sidney Kent of Fox, ostensibly about a wild plan to have Florida...
Undergraduate--1st Prize of $500 to Richard S. Salant '35, of New York, N. Y., for an essay entitled "The Poet's Harp." 2nd Prize of $200 to Howard F. Schomer '37, of Oak Park, Ill., for an essay entitled "Robert Frost and the Good Life in the Twentieth Century...
...decade. To increase it still further,. Pennsylvania last week cut Broadway Limited's New York-Chicago time to 17 hr. (a reduction of 45 min.), lowered the extra fare from $10 to $7.50. Simultaneously New York Central did the same with its crack 33-year-old Twentieth Century Limited...
...Miserables (Twentieth Century). When he arrived in Manhattan to gloat over public response to his two latest works (see p. 53), Producer Darryl Zanuck last week told the Press: "The most notable trend in picture-making has been that resulting from the public's cry for cleaner pictures. Efforts of the producers to meet this demand have made possible . . . Copperfield, Miserables, Bengal Lancer, Richelieu. ..." Fortunately for himself and Les Miserables, Producer Zanuck was entirely wrong. Les Miserables starts in the slums, proceeds to a Toulon prison galley and reaches its climax in a Paris sewer. It is the result...
Last week New York Central R. R. cut the schedule of its biggest moneymaker Twentieth Century Limited to 17 hr., effective late this month, a reduction of 45 min. from its regular New York-Chicago running time. The famed 33-year-old train will average 56.47 m.p.h. for the 960-mi. run, make a topspeed of 75 m.p.h...