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...Canadian liquor. Its local press is the weekly North Countryman. Last week the North Countryman charged itself, along with the rest of the U. S. Press, with "selling the Depression to the people through millions of columns of free advertising in the guise of news." The North Countryman (circ. 2,000) promised to print not another line of news or advertising referring to hard times...
...alive. Founded 1907 by the German-American Press Association for St. Louis residents of German descent, the Times has been regarded as a consistent money-loser for a decade. Its latest circulation report was only 55,000. Last week the Times was bought by the noisy, up-&-coming Star (circ. 140,000), presumably for its nuisance value. The Star is published by Elzey Roberts, archfoe of Radio, whose father bought it in 1913. Few months ago Publisher Roberts boasted that in 1931 the Star overtook 28 U. S. dailies in yearly advertising lineage...
...Midwest what the Wall Street Journal is to Manhattan. Its columns are leavened by condensed general news des patches, sports and dramatic reviews, but it does not attempt to compete with comprehensive dailies. Advertisers like it as an economical medium for reaching a definite class of high purchasing power (circ...
Sole national competitors to the Exhibitors Herald-World (circ. 12,000, more than blanketing the 9,500 owners of U. S. pictures houses) were Motion Picture News, Exhibitors Daily Review & Motion Picture News Today, and Film Daily. The new lineup of head men in the film industry (No. 1 still Adolph Zukor, No. 2 Harley L. Clarke instead of William Fox) made it seem wise and profitable for Publisher Quigley to acquire all but Film Daily and try to give the film industry something comparable to the steel industry's august Iron...
...Hugues LeRoux, who is to deliver the Cercle Francais lectures this winter, is an eminent journalist and lecturer, well-known in the literary circ es of Paris. He was born in Havre in 1860. He has devoted himself chiefly to journalism and the writing of light novels, contributing frequently to the "Temps" and "Journal." Among the books M. LeRoux has written may be mentioned the following: 'L'Enfer Parisien," "La Russie Souterraine," 'L'Attentat Sloughine," "Un de Nous," "Mederic et Lisee," "Chez les Filles," "L' Amour Infirme." Last year M. LeRoux made a dari g exploration through Abyssinia...