Word: unsold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tousled old Painter John Sloan, still a lively experimentalist at 69, produced his explanation of why art is dear. Because "people consume our product without buying it," he moaned, "an artist has to pay a good deal of rent to have a nice place to store his unsold paintings...
Living artists (whose work comprised one-third of that shown) were mostly allowed to send in what they liked. Since most of the contemporary pictures were for sale ($400 to $12,000), many an artist submitted canvases-like Eugene Speicher's "Red" Moore, Blacksmith-which had kicked around unsold. But there were good new pictures, notably Reginald Marsh's swirling skating scene, Prometheus in Rockefeller Center...
...greatest part was formerly shipped to Britain. Of that Britain marketed a large amount. Blitzkrieg and the fear of helping the enemy has knocked that market out. Last year Canada had a bumper crop of over 450,000,000 bushels, of which 275,000,000 is still in elevators, unsold. This year another heavy crop, probably 400,000,000 bushels, is at hand. Last week Britain bought 100,000,000 bushels. This was the largest purchase in wheat history, but it was very likely to be the last in some time. The Canadian Government bravely continued to purchase wheat from...
...average of ten pages, twelve on Sundays. With only a 300,000-ton reserve of newsprint, a ten-week supply of pulp for Britain's mills, a publishers' agreement to reduce all papers to six pages was momentarily expected. Newsdealers are no longer permitted to return unsold papers and it is often practically impossible to buy a morning paper unless one has a standing order with a newsdealer...
...Other unsold successes: Clare Boothe's Margin For Error, William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life, the bawdy musicomedy Du Barry Was a Lady, which if filmed would have to be housebroken or probably go in one Hays Office door and out the other; the John Barrymore fandango, My Dear Children; and, despite many reported deals, The Philadelphia Story...