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From Columbus until the World War the American people got most of their amusement informally from each other. It was only upon the advent of the Great Boom that the spelling bee and the guitar on the front porch were routed by the billion-dollar entertainment industry of radio and the movies. When, four years ago. "Major" Edward Bowes put on his amateur shows, they were a radio novelty. But this season audience participation in radio has become radio's most pronounced program trend. The high cost of stars, dearth of headline talent and Depression II have all united...
...Information Please is an inversion of the current question game and spelling bee vogue. It lets the audience ask the questions. Master of ceremonies is Book Critic Clifton Fadiman, who assembles a board of masterminds for the answering. Masterminds include Franklin Pierce Adams ("F.P.A."), Paul de Kruif, Stuart Chase. Listeners supply questions at $2 per question used, $5 per question not correctly answered. Twenty-four hours after the first broadcast last week the audience had submitted 800 questions...
Police charged that Lowell, while piloting his Gee Bee Spoliator, deliberately flow under Weeks Bridge and then forced strollers along the river to throw themselves flat on the ground...
International Settlement (Twentieth Century-Fox) makes a bee line to the Far East to cash in on the publicity value of the daily Sino-Japanese headlines. More worthy of note than its short-order plot are: 1) its resourceful utilization of the newsreel shots of the Shanghai bombing (TIME, Sept. 13); 2) its hopeful experiment with doll-like, undistinguished June Lang (real name: Jane Vlasek) as a beautiful-but-dumb comedian; 3) its commanding hero, 6 ft.-3 in. George Sanders. Russian-born of British parents, Sanders made a great stir in his first Hollywood role, as the foppish Lord...
...18th. I was dozing. Professor Bell was wrapped up with his own words and not too mindful of his class. He droned like a summer bee, interrupting the hum every minute with a thunderous blast from a rheumy nose. Suddenly he ceased droning: "And what do you think of "Thucydides's method of art. Mr. Appleworth?" There was a silence, so I thought. Harold nudged me, and I opened my eyes: "Oh you were speaking to me? What is what?" Professor Bell stared and twisted his mouth as I once saw one of Clyde Beatty's lions do. "I asked...