Hollywood mood sinks as film workers face jobless era
In Hollywood a cow boy-costumed extra jokes about rough pay while industry profits rise. A state official cites peak unemployment since 1961 actors strike and union leader calls Hollywood a ghost town amid 41.6 percent joblessness. Runaway overseas production rises from 34 percent in 1961 to about 65 percent last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Handsaker
Hollywood
California State Department of Employment
John W. Lehners
AFL Film Council
U.S
Burt Kennedy
Spain
John Dales
Screen Actors Guild
Central Casting Corp
Twentieth Century-Fox
United States
Universal
Hemmings Concedes Dual Lead In The Best House In London
British actor David Hemmings agrees to star in The Best House in London only if he can play both leading roles the lecherous procurer and the crusading idealist. He says the dual part is a demanding challenge and he also hints at future writing directing plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
David Hemmings
Hemmings
Pimp
Michelangelo Antonioni
Alfred the Great
Ireland
Alfred
Mining the Arts Mrs Owen Grinde Inspires Studio Practice
Evelyn Grinde an artist and teacher in Scottsdale Arizona discusses a 20 year painting career begun after formal study with various instructors. She credits William Schimmel for inspiring her serious pursuit and notes art hours include oil watercolor and dia ink sketching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owen Grinde
Evelyn
William Schimmel
Scottsdale, Ariz
Evelyn Grinde
Grinde
Chase
Wonder-Chil Prodigies in Music and Math
The article argues that many great composers and mathematicians show genius early, citing Mozart and Schubert as born prodigies and comparing musical development with Gauss. It notes child prodigies often become lasting creators and questions talent without early instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dren
E. T. Bell
Men of Mathematics
Mozart
Schubert
Karl Friedrich Gauss
Double Exposures Inspire Family Photography Fun
A lighthearted vignette recalls two boys aged 6 and 8 who received inexpensive box cameras and double exposed their prints. The tale links playful mistakes to creativity, then shifts to portraits of historic figures like Gauss, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Galois, noting prodigy levels and intriguing musical-mathematical families.
Clarke novel based on 2001 film and The Sentinel
Arthur C. Clarke’s novel based on the 2001 screenplay evolves from his earlier The Sentinel short story about a discovered lunar signal from an advanced race. The piece notes mixed quality, the film’s dazzling tech, and a puzzle of superintelligence, plus a joking computer driven publication date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarke
Sentinel
Phil Thomas
Reissued Blackbirds of 1928 showcased star line up
The article traces HE LATE JACK KAPP of Decca and Brunswick through a series of breakthrough cast recordings from 1928 to 1932. It highlights the use of house artists like Adelaide Hall Ethel Waters Duke Ellington Cab Calloway and the Mills Brothers, and notes Ellingtons signature textures echoing into 1967 with Billy Strayhorns And His Mother Called Him Bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Kapp
Decca Records
Kapp
Brunswick Records
Theater Orchestra
Helen Morgan
Paul Robeson
Brunswick
Blackbirds
Orig
Inal
Blackbirds” Company
Adelaide Hall
Bill Robinson
Ethel Waters
Duke Ellington
Cab Calloway
Mills Brothers
Don Redman
Miles Krueger
Lew Leslie
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson
Ellington
Duke
Bill
RCA
Victor
Billy Strayhorn
Strayhorn
NEW York Times
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Butte Public Library
Cecilie Leslie
Greenwich Village
Myron Leroy
Wall Street
Carthnig G. Vartan
Stephen Coulter
Anne Edwards
Joe Vergara
Ros Kirchshofer
Mike and
Marilyn Ferguson
Cavan
Arthur C. Clarke
Phil Regan
Jim Hefley
Mrs. Owen
Evelyn) Grinde
Isetty Ann Raymond
By Harold C. Schonberg
Herb
Double
Gauss
Michael Holzer
William Rowan Hamilton
Hamilton
Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
Wolfgang
Felix
Bach
Bernoulli
Johann Sebastian Bach
Switzerland
Bell
Johann Sebastian
Evariste Galois
Hugh Wolf
Galois
Dr. Bell
Polytechnique
Pergolesi
Arriaga
San Francisco
Robert Duncan
New American Library
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