Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...early-morning caller, "Oh, no, the Senator's not in; he went to seven o'clock Mass." Mexico's famed, shovel-mouthed comic, Cantinflas, built a skit around a gun-toting politico trading his pistol in for a rosary, added "They're buying holy water instead of tequila now." As with Spain, Catholic liberals have been disinclined to blame all Catholicism's trouble in Mexico on leftist politicians. For more than 300 years after Cortes conquered Mexico, the Church had enormous wealth and influence, did not always use them spiritually. In his 1937 encyclical...
...salesmen roar out of 31 U. S. cities to sell some 17,000 theatre owners a full year's supply of films (100 to 300 per theatre), sight unseen. They do not sell the films by name, since none has been completed and only a few planned. Instead they sell their studio's reputation. From the poke sticks a real pig's ear or two, a few guaranteed bristles: "three Gables, four Rooneys, two Mervyn LeRoy specials," etc. To get these, an exhibitor must buy a full schedule of unknowns, many of which will prove...
...merely a means to a lesser end-the end of block booking. The Big Five, who have ducked an expensive legal battle and still have their theatres, are not complaining. But their costs will rise for three reasons: 1) salesmen must make the rounds once every few weeks instead of annually; 2) there must be more good pictures, fewer "turkeys," or sales will flop; 3) the new arbitration setup will cost up to $500,000 a year, maybe more if too much trouble crops...
...connections are a potent argument in any studio discussion. Before long she had lined up Starlets Jane Wyman, Arleen Whelan, Susan Hayward, June Preisser, Warners' bit player Ronald Reagan for male contrast, Fox Press Agent Jack Mulcahy to manage the outfit-all borrowed at their regular studio salaries instead of the higher price usually paid for loan-outs. Happy Agent Morrison quickly booked them in seven cities at a flat rate of $7,500 weekly, $3,300 of which was all Lolly...
...trip got off to a ragged start in Santa Barbara and San Francisco, where movie actors are no novelty; but roaring business farther east precipitated a slight internal explosion when the members were forced to do five or six shows daily instead of the agreed four. Lolly soon quelled the uprising (her column is the most frightening bludgeon in Hollywood), thereafter kept things going swimmingly. In Manhattan on Christmas Day she spread cheer with a party for her "children," presented the girls with $150 evening dresses, the boys with equally expensive remembrances. Camaraderie eventually spread to the point where Actor...