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Gilbert Seldes

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9 picks · 1931–1935

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MUSIC WITH MEALS.
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PROFILE of Emil Coleman. When Coleman arrived in this country in 1913, an agent sent him to Bustanoby's for a tryout. When he got there he saw that the…

Song and Dance Man~II
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PROFILE of George M. Cohan. He has been Mrs. Cohan's familiar companion for the last twenty years. Reardon is a former policeman who likes to read but …

PROFILES The Long Road to Roxy's
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PROFILE of Donald Deskey, a modern-day artist who is in charge of the artists who are painting murals for the Radio City Music Hall. Tells of his hard …

“A Harvest of Inventions”
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Tells of John Hays Hammond, Jr., an inventor who had done considerable work in the field of radio, and developed many instruments that deal with remote …

Mickey-Mouse Maker
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Gilbert Seldes’s 1931 Profile of a modest man in Hollywood, four years into the making of his impish, benevolent, four-fingered cartoon, Mickey Mouse.

Artist in a Factory
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Profile of Henry Dreyfuss, who is one of the dozen artists who is changing the shapes and sizes of objects we use in every day life--fountain pens, shaving…

Glorifier-II
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PROFILE of Florenz Ziegfeld, the theatrical producer, and some facts about the productions for which he became famous. He has always wanted newspaper …

The Glorifier-I
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PROFILE of Florenz Ziegfeld, the great theatrical producer known for his Ziegfeld Follies and his glorification of the American girl. Traces his life in …

The Emperor Jones
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Profile of Robert Edmond Jones, noted theatre designer, who in his fifteen years of designing, producing, and directing, has touched nearly every side of …