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Tryout of Pocket Books-10,000 copies of each title-was confined to the New York area. At first week's end they were a sellout. (First to go were Wuthering Heights and Dorothy Parker's Enough Rope, with The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Felix Salten's Bambi bringing up the rear.) Macy's sold 4,100 copies in six days. Booksellers said they brought new faces into their stores. Newsstands did an arm-aching business, as did Grand Central Terminal "train butchers...
...Ballyhoo's heyday Editor Anthony wrote a musical show, also called Ballyhoo, which profited from the magazine's popularity. Wracking his brains for a new magazine idea, he hit upon the reverse procedure. With Hellzapoppin still a sellout after eight months on Broadway, Norman Anthony offered Producers Olsen & Johnson half a cent a copy for permission to use the title for a magazine.* Having little ready cash, he got a printer and a paperseller to take a chance on three issues, bought $300 worth of art, then sat down in his room in the Parkside Hotel and wrote...
...five-month hit in Chicago, the Swing Mikado made the Government $35,000; by May 1, as a two-month sellout on Broadway, it should make the Government $14,000 more. Checks for the profits are not, however, to be forwarded to the Treasury. All Federal Theatre receipts are thrown back into a general pool called "admission funds" to be drawn on for future productions. But money made in one city or region cannot ordinarily be used in another...
...himself, Jan Masaryk has no personal plans. He was offered a sheaf of British directorates, turned them down. Maybe next year he will write a book-"just a little one." It should be a bestseller on the century's best sellout. Meanwhile he says he has "taken the veil for democracy...
...nobody has shown as clearly as Mr. Arvin what Whitman's democracy meant: stump speeches for the luckless Martin Van Buren, support for Tyler the Whig when Tyler took up Andrew Jackson's old fight against the United States Bank, disgust with party politics during the Democratic sellout before the Civil War, and always "strong images of a democratic and equal life-of 'ordinary' men and women working, building, making things, growing things, sailing ships, fighting battles, eating and drinking, singing, marching." Whitman was no Utopian socialist, says Mr. Arvin, not only because...