Word: productions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moving picture business-whether because producers feel that the season will excuse shortcomings or diminish protests -has long manufactured a staple product known as "summer fare." The Bride Walks Out is a fair sample of it, one of the minor discomforts of hot weather, to be classed with mosquitoes and warm mayonnaise. Typical gag (by Sparks): "Maybe if I get fired, Millie will divorce me. There I go, daydreaming again...
...100th novel. This year rounds out a half-century of writing. Next October he will be 70. "E. Phillips Oppenheim" is more than a man's name: it has become a familiar phrase for bejewelled melodrama. In the 50 years Author Oppenheim has been doing business his trademarked product has become as well known and as popular as a successful breakfast food, and for the same reasons : it is a standard brand and it pleases the public palate. To analyze an Oppenheim book would be as uninformative a process as to announce that a breakfast food was compounded simply...
Armament limitations forced young Germans to develop motorless flying after the War. Product of one ill wind, gliding failed to profit from another. Depression curtailed plane companies' interest in the sport. U. S. manufacture of gliders soon ceased. Some enthusiasts bought their planes from Germany, others built them at home. Groups pooled their resources, formed more clubs, mainly because there were not enough ships to go around. Not 1,000,000 pilots but a bare 70, cream of the total U. S. crop of some 2,500, were at Elmira, N. Y. last week for the seventh annual meet...
...Against the World (Warner). This appraisal of the brevity of the public's memory may be correct, but it is also unflattering to Warner Brothers' own product. Two Against the World-a re-make of the Warner smash Five Star Final (1931)-does not offer its famed prototype the courtesy of alteration, but simply stuffs it into a radio-station and mans it with stock company people. Sherry Scott (Humphrey Bogartj is the manager of a radio-chain who, in obedience to his hypocritical boss, rakes up a 20-year-old murder story as material for a serial...
Aside from taking profit out of price, the strongest co-op appeal is quality. The quality may be low, though it is usually high, but the buyer knows precisely what he is getting. In most standard lines the product is manufactured to specifications laid down by the cooperators. This is one reason why co-operative buying has be come rooted so firmly among U. S. farm ers, who well know that fancy brand names do not alter the tested formulas for fertilizer or laying mash. One-eighth of all U. S. farm supplies are now sold through coops, the volume...