Word: yellen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Story, True Romance, Experiences), refused to convert to the new comic format when Fawcett did. Thereupon the bottom dropped out of Macfadden's market: after netting $224,883 in the first quarter of 1949, it reported a second-quarter loss of $11,635. Admitted Macfadden's Dwight Yellen: "No doubt about it-the confession comics have hurt our field...
...severe. . . . We disagree with your statement that the Stateside papers "overplayed [Hicswa] . . . outrageously." The Army court-martial system is so weighted and bigoted, especially toward the enlisted man, that we feel that any and all court-martial cases should be brought before the American public. . . . (CPL.) ART YELLEN [AND FOUR OTHER SERVICEMEN] Guam
Ziegfeld Follies (music by Ray Henderson; lyrics by Jack Yellen; produced by the Shuberts in association with Alfred Bloomingdale and Lou Walters) is Shubert flapdoodle. In 1934 and 1936 the Shuberts borrowed this lustrous title to some effect, but this time they have thrown it away on a completely lackluster show. Alternating undistinguished sketches with indistinguishable tunes, gaudy spectacles with soggy satire, young legs with old gags, handsome clothes with jitterbug clatter, it is just the Shuberts' old Winter Garden formula to cop the summer trade...
Sound Practice. In Brawley, Calif., Dr. Benjamin Yellen took over the practice of Dr. George Holleron for the duration...
Boys and Girls Together (Music by Sammy Fain, lyrics by Jack Yellen & Irving Kahal; produced by Ed Wynn). The late great Florenz Ziegfeld was not overly popular with comics. He was firm in the belief that funnymen should remain on the stage only long enough to give his girls a chance to change their clothes. In Boys and Girls Together, Ed Wynn reverses the master's dictum. From the moment he steps out of an old trunk in Act I to announce that all the actors come from show boats and hence his "cast was bred upon the waters...