Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Mao did nothing so risky as to come on the junket in person, but jouncing along in a motor truck over spring-breaking roads came Red Finance Commissar Lin Po-chu. It was as if Earl Browder should send one of his Communist henchmen on Washington's Birthday to honor the capitalist Father of His Country. Bland and self-possessed, Red Lin produced a scroll which he said was from the brush of Red Mao-as likely a story as though it should be claimed that Comrade Browder had written a speech in Chaucerian English or Attic Greek...
...another says that he lacks competitive "guts" and that the Bees' President Robert Quinn hired him mainly because his name should have box-office value. Of the three rookies, Owen attracted most attention by impudently remarking of his team's best pitcher, Dean: "I'll get along swell with Dizzy as long as he doesn't try to tell me how to catch...
...would have been foolhardy to compete with established firms along the conventional recording lines. Therefore it was necessary to seek out new names and, especially, new musical material to create new interest in phonograph records." So said Managing Director Irving Mills of Master Records, Inc. (TIME, March 22) last week as he totted up the newest U. S. record company's first week's business. As a house policy, accent on what is known in show business as the "freak draw" is novel in the recording industry. As applied to Mills's Master (75?) and Variety...
...although not unfalteringly hilarious, disclose an unexpected flair for swashbuckling satire on the part of reedy Actor George Curzon, who last year played a somewhat insipid Parnell in Parmil, an unpleasant maniac in Black Limelight. Apparently no more actionable than a last year's film (Sing, Baby, Sing) along the same story lines, Hitch Your Wagon would probably seem to such an experienced theatre man as John Barrymore rather less amusing...
...efforts to find out who the phantom troubadour is, put him on the air again; Winchell's efforts to beat Bernie to the discovery; and the efforts of a girl singer named Alice Huntley (Alice Faye), who has outdistanced both, to nurse Eddie's self-esteem along to a point at which the knowledge that he is a radio sensation will not totally disrupt his poise, which is still barely sufficient to permit him to sing into what he thinks is a prop microphone in his girl friend's sitting room...