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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice, semi-Hawalian music, and genuine pictures of a schooner under sail; tiresome if you think Martha Haye's mouth is to big for her face. The string itself is a not too substantial plot of how the champion pineapple salesman sells himself while trying to sell his product. But the show is not to be condemned for being unsubstantial, because that is just what it tries not to be. Rather this is something aimed directly to please the not too demanding sense...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 5/14/1937 | See Source »

...detect the adulteration of olive oil with tea seed oil. It described the operation of the so-called Fitelson test. The serious vice of this article is that it is so constructed as to lead the average reader to conclude that measured by this test our client's product was not pure olive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 3, 1937 | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

Sons of an employe of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, the Mauchs were born in 1924. Billy is the older by ten minutes. Their mother, delighted with her product, had them taught to dance before they went to school. By the time they were seven, the little Mauchs were acting on radio and posing for ads in their spare time. Their jobs were comparatively easy because whenever one felt unlike working the other took his place. By the time they got their Warner contract in 1935, the Mauchs had had experience on programs like Lucky Strike. Show Boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mauch Twins & Mark Twain | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...today an artist of even moderate reputation has half the product of his studio almost continuously on tour at loan exhibitions of dealers and provincial museums. For this he gets nothing except the vague possibility of making a sale, must stand damage and insurance on his own pictures. To force galleries to pay rental fees no matter how small on exhibited pictures became an important issue with a group of artists known as the American Artists' Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Congress Show | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...celebration provided a happy opportunity for more than 200 big retailers from all sections to mix fun with business, for the occasion coincided with the opening of the buying season for autumn lines. Much was the talk of rising prices in both woolen goods (up 33%) and tailored product (up 10% to 15%). Serious were the discussions of trends in colors (gayer) and styles (toward draped models). Hart Schaffner & Marx's Golden Jubilee was pushed for its full promotional value but it also had genuine historical interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hart, Schaffner, Marx & Hillman | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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