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...year in rentals, employ 236,500. Yearly gross for 15,378 theatres in the U. S. is $750,000,000. The industry pays $100,000,000 a year in taxes, $77,000,000 for advertising. In the U. S. between 75% and 85% of adult cinemaddicts buy tickets between 7:30 p. m. and 8:30 p. m. Average daily attendance at U. S. cinemansions...
When a writer's imagination is as great as moral indignation, he is likely to produce a fantasy. In an environment of pure invention, heroes are twice as heroic. villains twice as villainous and life's follies doubly absurd. Toward the petard of such celebrated masters of adult make-believe as Jonathan Swift and Samuel Butler. Thomas Stanley Matthews has hoisted himself with a nightmare called The Moon's No Fool...
...just about this time a year ago. I was in Honolulu and he was working in Hollywood. They had a flirtation. ... I cannot see any terrible harm in that. Is it unusual for a husband to flirt with an actress? We have been married 20 years. We are adults, leading our own lives in adult fashion...
...direction of their school authorities, spent largely on lunches, carfare, cigarets, clothing. Less than a fourth of the applications could be filled. For youth not in school, NYA's 48 state administrators had concocted an assortment of work relief projects, so designed as not to crowd the adult Works Progress Administration. Maximum monthly wage...
...Francisco, Hyman Gorwitz, father of eight, irked when neighborhood moppets overran his backyard, buried heavy steel wolftraps there, baited them with counterfeit dimes. Before Trapper Gorwitz could catch anything, adult neighbors scaled his fence, dug up two of his traps, had him jailed for would-be assault on their children. "I'm the easiest fellow there can be if I'm treated right," insisted Hyman Gorwitz...