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...example let us take the case of the radio maestri. When a top-notch orchestra leader is engaged for a series of commercial broadcasts he may receive a salary in the neighborhood of $2,000 per broadcast. The newspaper radio columns and gossip columns immediately exaggerate this and say that he has been signed for $4,000 or $5,000. However, of the actual $2,000 at least $1,000 goes as commissions, and a good part of the residue goes for arrangements and orchestrations. Next, money must be deducted for office expenses, photograph and publicity service, entertaining, electrical transcriptions...
...will go to Canada as that Dominion's Governor-General (TIME, Aug. 19). This high-placed connection made it possible for the British film industry to improve notably upon Hollywood methods of ballyhoo. The premiere of The Thirty-Nine Steps in London was preceded, not by a mere broadcast, but by a Gaumont-British banquet at which the guests of honor were Lord Tweedsmuir, Home Secretary Sir John Simon, Minister for Air Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister and their ladies...
...husky crooning of Bing Crosby which sends so many feminine hearts into unbelievable flip-flops will subside in the fadeout of "Two For To-Night" at the Met this evening, only to begin again tomorrow with the opening scene of "The Big Broadcast of 1936." In a story which hangs together all too precariously for the plot lover, a group of seasoned and superior troupers manage to present a satisfying evening's entertainment...
...Broadcast" lacks the novelty of the last "Big Broadcast." It is obvious, however, that the producers have attempted to make up the shortcoming in big names. It is somewhat disconcerting to the inveterate moviegoer to see such stars as Ruggles and Boland, Amos and Andy, Burns and Allen, Ethel Merman and Jessica Dragonette doing bits...
...this occurred last May. By last week the Soviet prosecutor had worked up as roaring an indictment as was ever broadcast to remind Russians that whatever else they do they must save State property. The fact that the Communist Party's own agent aboard the Soviet had endorsed the captain's decision failed to baffle the State Prosecutor. "I denounce you, Comrade Miguschenko," he cried. "You should have led a mutiny against the order to cut the tow line! You should have taken charge of the men, locked up the captain as an enemy of the proletariat...