Word: talents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in London talent and adman alike twiddled, hoped that once war got in the groove, radio might again be able to sing for its supper. Radio Normandie has a snug little building around a corner from BBC's showy (and now sandbagged) Broadcasting House. Like everybody else in London, Radio Normandie's outpost dug in, fitted up a sub-basement air-raid shelter complete with telephones, desks, transcription machinery, eating, sleeping, toilet facilities for its staff of 200; a phonograph for dull hours...
...Juno Films). For the spectacular rise of the French cinema in the years before World War II, the men most responsible have been a handful of able directors. These directors usually did not develop special talent for the camera but made movies that attracted and used the seasoned acting personnel of the French theatre. For The End of a Day, a photographic plate recording with sharp sensitivity the emotional atmosphere of a home for retired actors, Director Julien Duvivier (Poil de Carotte, Un Cornet de Bal) recruited a cast that includes many a distinguished veteran of the Paris stage, headed...
Born in Quincy, Ill., son of a Methodist minister, William Bushnell Stout early developed a talent for whittling ingenious gadgets. After studying engineering at the University of Minnesota, he left with $85 in his jeans, grubbed along as manual training instructor, toy designer, vaudevillian, journalist. In 1906 he married a Miss Alma Raymond, with his own deft hands built their St. Paul home and every stick of furniture in it, took a rattlebang honeymoon trip through Europe on a motorcycle...
...called Broadcast Music, Inc. Subject to SEC requirements, stock will be sold to broadcasters up to one-half their 1937 payments to ASCAP. In 1937 ASCAP collected $3,878,000 from radio; last year, $3,845,000. Announced purpose of Broadcast Music, Inc.: to "uncover a wealth of new talent in the U. S. . . . and bring to the American public an abundance of enjoyable new music." It is more important as a threat: to make ASCAP shave its fees in radio's 1941 contract. If fees are revised, Broadcast Music, Inc., will be dissolved. If not, NAB members expect...
Part of Hutchins Hapgood's "wonderful wasted life" has been told in the candid memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan, for whose famed Manhattan salon he once served as chief talent scout. He appeared again in the autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, under whom he got his start as a journalist specializing in Bowery bums, thugs, anarchists and trends. His late brother Norman, famed reformist editor, and Mary Heaton Vorse are among a half dozen others who included him in their autobiographies. Last week he gave his own version of his story...