Word: tabloidism
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...Joseph Goebbels' henchmen had a bright idea. Forthwith to the U. S. via short wave last week went the news that Germany would pay toll on cabled requests for Nazi radio talks on desired subjects. Quick to publicize the German offer was the U. S. press. The Manhattan tabloid PM, which mortally hates & fears Adolf Hitler only a little more than it does Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh, exhorted its readers to take advantage of the Nazis by insulting them collect...
Birthdays. Katharine Cornell, grande dame of the American theatre, her 43rd, by reviving Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma, putting her able cast through its pre-Manhattan paces in Detroit. Wendell L. Willkie, his 49th, without cake-cutting. Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt, tabloid darling, her 17th, still a year away from her debutante splash...
...magazine devoted to art, last week, with a new choir of angels, became a thick bi-weekly instead of a thin weekly, reduced its annual subscription from $7 to $4.50. Among its new backers: International Business Machines President Thomas J. Watson, Marshall Field III, archangel of the New York tabloid...
Tall, grey, bony Italo Montemezzi, 65-year-old Italian composer, is a one-good-opera man.* Montemezzi's opera, written in 1913, is L'Amore del Tre Re (The Love of Three Kings). It is a chronicle of ancient tabloid-headline love: a king's wife and a handsome lover; a compassionate husband; a wise, blind, bearded oldster poking about in the background. It is old stuff to sophisticated opera fans, but Montemezzi's surging, glowing score is as Italian as ravioli, and one of the best of its kind since Verdi. Last week Composer Montemezzi...
...press, to excite passions, race prejudice, prurient interest. But the paper that printed most about the trial-but without getting lurid-was the Greenwich (Conn.) Time (circulation: 3,265), the Strubings' local paper. Of New York papers only the Daily News and PM gave it conventional tabloid prominence. All other New York papers including the tabloid Mirror and Hearst's Journal & American played it down with brief reports slurring the details. One, the World-Telegram, in most of its reports even avoided mentioning Mrs. Strubing's name...