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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...from 1938; net earnings in excess of $3,140,000 ($4.05 a share), up 610%; unfilled orders over $40,000,000 (they jumped to $70,000,000 last week). Bob Gross's preview was incidentally a potent sales talk for an operation that took place last week. It was a type of operation that has threatened to become obsolete: a public offering of common stock to obtain new capital...
Instead of hiring another world-famed maestro to take Bodanzky's place, General Manager Johnson picked a talented, 27-year-old stripling named Erich Leinsdorf, who had been brought from Austria in 1937 as Bodanzky's assistant. Though Manhattan critics admitted that Leinsdorf was not bad for a beginner they com plained that the Met was no place for a beginner. There were rumors that the Met's stars liked Mr. Leinsdorf no better than the critics did. The pot simmered. Last week the lid blew...
...Shirley Temple it is rather important that they should. This year Cinemactress Temple, now age ten, fell to fifth place among Hollywood stars in box-office rating. Persistent rumor, persistently denied by her studio, has it that the success of The Blue Bird and the future of little Miss Temple are vitally connected...
...died in 1919. During her lifetime she had: 1) seen her Poems of Passion, published in 1883, sell 60,000 copies in two years and take its place in plush binding with The Rubaiydt of Omar Khayyam on the nation's parlor table; 2) purveyed sunshine and consolation to the multitude through syndicated articles in Hearst papers; 3) triumphantly covered the funeral of Queen Victoria for the New York American, by writing, on the spot, a poem called The Queen's Last Ride; 4) been presented as a famous American at the Court of St. James...
Small, bright, Russian-born Jenny Iphigenia Ballou got the idea of doing Ella Wheeler Wilcox several years ago when she and her husband were living near the Wilcox place at Short Beach, Conn. Her witty book obviously owes much to Critic Van Wyck Brooks, with whom she corresponded-though Brooks disagreed with her somewhat unguarded conclusions. There is more than morbid fascination in Period Piece, more than a stunt in Biographer Ballou's reason for doing it: "It may be because critics have been squeamish about penetrating the subliterary world that literature is not at a generally higher level...