Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occupational Hazard. In Trenton, N.J., the State Supreme Court awarded Workmen's Compensation Act disability to Robert L. Grant: he had been punched by a union official in a labor-management parley...
...there wasn't any free stuff, and there wasn't much excitement. In 1944, the reformers committed an act of political cowardice. They ran Guitar Player Jimmy Davis for governor. Davis, who wanted to go to Hollywood, was a good candidate but a bad governor. He was just supposed to keep the seat warm until Sam Jones could come back...
...which surrendered to the movies in 1932), vaudeville was the star at the opening of the newest U.S. television station, American Broadcasting Co.'s WJZ-TV. The first show, from 7 o'clock until nearly midnight, featured all of vaudeville's tried & true turns: a dog act, a comedy team of acrobats, tap and ballroom dancers, comedians, songbirds, straight men. Gus Van (of venerable Van & Schenck) did a tear-jerking ballad about the good old days; Ray Bolger danced a comic solo interpretation of the Joe Louis-Tony Galento fight; James (Tobacco Road) Barton played a drunk...
...Palace's S.R.O. audience stormily approved every bit of it. Sighed Carlton Emmy, maestro of the dog act: "It was like coming back to the old homestead . . ." Veteran Pat Rooney, who started in vaudeville back in 1890, said: "When I saw that audience I got that old feeling. Sure, television will bring back vaudeville. Vaudeville's never died." But it had changed a lot. Said Gus Van: "Years ago, you used to sit for an hour in the theater and make yourself up. Now a fellow with nice soft hands comes along and does it for you." Ella...
...rounded up about a dozen dramatics students to act out the accident, and he had taken motion pictures of it from four different angles. For one sequence, the camera was behind the driver's seat, as the car moved down Ann Arbor's Monroe Street, sideswiping a pedestrian who stepped out from behind a parked car. The other shots showed what witnesses would have seen from the sidewalks. For the trial, the driver and witnesses saw only the sequences that applied to them. The student lawyers had to prepare their briefs without seeing the movies...