Word: binges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Champion crowd-puller of the year, reported U.S. movie exhibitors (polled by the trade's Motion Picture Herald), was 42-year-old Bing Crosby - as he was the year before and the year before that...
...Bing Crosby, who financed this film version but does not appear in it, thought he was taking all necessary precautions by posting a rabbi, a priest and a Protestant minister on the set as technical advisers during production. But the story's Jewish father is still a pinchpenny, the Irish father is still a belligerent bullhead. It turns out, in 1946, that jokes about racial and religious groups are not really good, clean...
Abie's Irish Rose (Bing Crosby Producers; United Artists) is a tired old theatrical joke about a Jewish boy and an Irish-Catholic girl. It was undiluted corn a quarter of a century ago; by now, the course of recent history has covered the feeble joke with a rather repellent mold...
...radio, recordings are the staff of life. They fill 43% of all radio time and recently have even moved in on network nighttime hours (e.g., Bing Crosby's new show is transcribed-TIME, Oct. 14). In addition, most big-time programs are recorded in rehearsal, so that weak spots can be patched. Commercials are often test-recorded three or four times...
Last week Recordist Howard had some hard words for radiomen: "Most stations play a hundred records a day, and they play every last one wrong. Take the new Crosby show. Everybody complains that Bing has lost his voice, that the recording is tinny and distorted. That's nonsense. Bing sings about as well as he ever did, and the recording is all right. It's the stations that play it wrong. The grooves in a record are cut at varying angles and depths with styli of varying sizes. Records have to be played back with corresponding needles...