Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jimmie convinces the Hathaways that Pearl, whom he introduces as Virginia Lee, a cultured, stage-struck socialite, will back their company if she is given a bit part. Vehicle for the Broadway opening is The Mikado, with Danforth singing the lead, Frank Moulan the Lord High Executioner, and Irene Hervey, most fetching in a kimono, chorusing Three Little Maids from School with Vivian Hart and Carita Crawford. The finale is interrupted when conscience, stirred by the sound of approaching police sirens, impels Jimmie to reveal that the show has no backing and the house has been "papered" (packed free...
Reason for old Ed Hamilton's emotion was that the bit of metal marked the end of a grueling six-month search for his son-in-law, Pilot S. J. Samson. Last Dec. 14, Pilot Samson took off from Los Angeles on his regular run to Salt Lake City in a Western Air Express Boeing. After stopping at Las Vegas, Nev., the twin-motored transport droned on north into a wintry night and oblivion (TIME, Dec. 28). Aboard the plane, which last reported hitting 199 m.p.h. at 10,000 ft. under a "high overcast," were four passengers...
...Empty Chair," "Lion of Lucerne," "Old Skipper's Tale." A special Spagnola attraction is a pair of big sand & cement dragons with light-bulb eyes, open mouths to receive coins which tinkle down through the animal, land on spaces marked "Papa Love Mama," "You're a Bit Tight." Last year Sculptor Spagnola ran a coin vote with busts of Landon and Roosevelt. Roosevelt...
Notes on the cinema would, however, include some mention of the bit part played by Jerome Cowan. As Arthur Miller, friend of both the principals, he keeps the fire hot and the plot going by conclusively convincing the world that Petrov, the great ballet artist, and Linda Keene, dancer and blues singer, are married, though in reality they are not; that is, not until the eighth reel...
Within a month the Council had bit into another big question: "the athletic situation." This investigation paid particular attention to the development of intramural competition and methods of financing the H.A.A. program. In its report it advocated a compulsory athletic fee for upperclassmen, a reorganization of intramural sports, and the building of a hockey rink. The result was that the authorities placed inter-House athletics on a more centralized basis...