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...last week, when flies in de Basil's soup seemed thickest, handsome Prince Serge Obolensky (onetime Diaghilev supporter) and his cohorts of Manhattan socialites (Aldrich. Biddle. Vanderbilt et al.) and White Russians thundered to the rescue. To the Obolensky-de Basil standard rallied white-haired Choreographer Michel Fokine, several of whose past creations (Don Juan, Les Eléments, L'Epreuve d' Amour) already studded the proposed repertory of the Massine-World-Art company. Besides the exclusive future services of Choreographer Fokine, the Obolensky-de Basil company acquires the bulk of the present repertory costumes and scenery...
Hollywood Hotel (Warner Brothers), is the name of a venerable, no longer pretentious Hollywood hostelry. It is much more widely known, however, as the name of Campbell Soup's weekly radio program in which cinema stars are chattily introduced by No. i Hearst Movie Columnist Louella O. Parsons. The column has national circulation, so in return for mention in the Parsons' jottings, even though their inaccuracy is celebrated, Hollywood obediently sits up and begs. Broadcaster Parsons can get actors on the Campbell hour for nothing, whereas other radio programs lay out large sums for screen names. In return...
...brassy precision which only the Hague machine could produce. For to Frank Hague, who has kept himself in office for 20 years, often rolling up election majorities that would be a credit to Adolf Hitler, the problem of turning out 16,500 people* for a rally was duck soup. In Jersey City, as the Mayor has said...
...office, sits down at a Chippendale table at one end of the room and in a blank dummy of the magazine which is to reach subscribers and newsstands four weeks hence, makes up. Between fixed points-the front page, the editorial page and the Campbell's Soup ad-the nation's favorite magazine reading matter, written and bought from a year to a week before,* is arranged. A good cook needs no recipe and the Post's editors follow a make-up routine which is unstated. It is, however, inflexible within its limits: four articles, four...
...paid National Broadcasting Company $1,200.000 last year for radio time consumed. Messrs. Gosden and Correll have been teamed on the air for almost 18 years and theirs is the second oldest national radio program. This week Amos 'n' Andy went to work for Campbell's Soup on a 156-week contract at $7,500 a week...