Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea is credited to Publisher Pascal Covici of Covici, Friede. Visiting Hollywood last summer he watched the filming of The Mighty Barnum with his good friend, Author Gene Fowler. Publisher Covici secured rights to print the script of The Mighty Barnum in book form. The producers. Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc., asked nothing but the publicity from simultaneous release of book and film. Author Fowler and Co-Author Bess Meredyth were to split 15% of the gross sales...
Detecting adulterated, filthy or decomposed foods and drugs is the Food & Drug's second big problem. Imported canned tuna caused considerable trouble last year. Every twentieth can contained rotten fish. Mr. Campbell's men rejected 600,000 lb., principally from Japan...
...higher & higher pillars until he was finally ensconced on top of a 60-ft. column on which he lived for 36 years without once descending. The holy man hauled his food up with a rope, or it was carried up a ladder by his disciples, who founded monasteries nearby. Twentieth Century French diggers in Syria explored the great edifice of four basilicas built in St. Simeon's honor, in the courtyard of which the base of his column still stands. Their last bulletin to the French Academy of Inscriptions was that a fragment of the pillar itself had been unearthed...
...included Twentieth Century as one of the trio. I think Columbia would rather substitute Lady for a Day for the John Barrymore picture...
...Twentieth Century was not even a good grosser. Even Columbia's luck for taking slipping stars and rebuilding them couldn't affect Barrymore's box office ability. Barrymore may remain a starring figure, but as far as the box office is concerned, he has never proved the sensation most people think they believe...