Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reached the proportions of thirsty demand. In 1935 a poll of the Columbia Broadcasting System's U. S. and Canadian listeners gave him first place in popularity (Beethoven was second) among all composers, past and present. This autumn Manhattan's Radio City MusicHall Conductor Erno Rapee unhesitatingly undertook to broadcast Sibelius' entire set of seven symphonies. The Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra play them far oftener than the once-popular symphonies of Tchaikovsky and Cesar Franck. The great bald Finn has come into...
Once publisher of the newspaper trade journal Fourth Estate, organizer and first president of Columbia Broadcasting System, 51-year-old Harry Newman is best known to newspapermen as the clever promotion expert who undertook in 1927 to make America reindeer-meat conscious, so that rich Arthur & Leonard Baldwin could realize profits on their $6,000,000 reindeer business in Alaska. Mr. Newman sold many a leading newspaper his Christmas circulation promotion stunt which had as its climax the arrival of Santa Claus on local streets in a jingling sleigh drawn by a reindeer team. With a publicist's acumen...
...future commitments. The Recession is also remarkable because, of all the men in the U. S. who had the statistical information about it at hand, Franklin Roosevelt was apparently the last man to see it coming. Rapid but not remarkable were the first of the moves with which he undertook, last week, to battle Recession...
Died. Judge Francis Joseph Heney, 78. famed prosecutor of Oregon land fraud trials and San Francisco graft prosecutions 30-odd years ago; after a long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif. As a young man in Arizona, Heney undertook the case of a divorcing wife whose husband, hulking Dr. Christopher Handy, had threatened to shoot any lawyer who helped her; when they met. Heney drew faster than Handy, killed him. John, son of Christopher Handy, was last week a pallbearer to Judge Heney...
...option lapsed, Abbott looked at the script, felt warmly toward it because it was about Broadway, suggested a few changes. The authors condensed three scenes into one, picked a tag for it out of the second act, Abbott sent it on to wild acclaim. In similar warmhearted fashion he undertook Brother Rat because it was a play about youngsters written by youngsters (John Monks Jr. & Fred F. Finklehoffe, V. M. I. '32). It had been returned by 31 other managements. The Abbott touch converted it into a Broadway hit, a $150,000 film property (Warners). Producer Abbott prefers...