Universal Weekly (1933-1935)

Record Details:

Title:
Universal Weekly
Date:
1933-1935
Author:
Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co.
Publisher:
New York, Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co.
Volume:
Universal Weekly (1933-1935)
Leaf #:
000328
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
The organ of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Previously titled MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY.
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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4 ■ UNIVERSAL WEEKLY =Sept. 14, 1935 THE NATIONAL LAUGH No. 829 Straight-from-the-Shoulder Talk by Carl Laemmle, President of the Universal Pictures Corporation The world is yearning for something to laugh at. Particularly, the United States. The millions are half scared to death. They don't know what is coming next in the form of income taxes, inheritance taxes and other taxes. Millions are wondering whether they were completely nuts when they voted our present administration into office. They are wondering how in the devil we ever expect to pay back the billions (not the millions) which our government plans to spend to keep the idle from being idle. They never needed relief from tension more than they do today. They never needed a laugh so badly as they do this minute. They need it so badly that they will be glad to pay for it, even if it is only in the form of a movie. So up steps Zasu Pitts to deliver the much-needed laugh. Miss Pitts is a laugh before she even starts. Universal knew that before it even cast her to play the principal nut role in a picture called "She Gets Her Man."