Word: boys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tunes of Irving Berlin, Alice Faye and Ethel-Merman vocalize their way through a familiar but amusing version of boy-meets-boy-loses-boy-gets in the current screening of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" at the University. The story itself, showing the incredible ups and downs of show business, covers the last quarter of a century in an interesting if superficial picture of the times...
...know what was in the boy's minds?" he asked. Boring said the students were victims of crowd psychology in which they forgot reparations and suddenly expressed their personalities regardless of the object of their actions...
...orders a drink and begins to scribble in a notebook. As he writes, he reads aloud or chats, sometimes with the waiter, sometimes with his neighbors at nearby tables. Meanwhile, the screen unrolls aloud the narrative he is telling. It begins as the story of a little boy who was punished, for stealing five pennies, by not being allowed to have mushrooms for dinner. The mushrooms were poisonous toadstools and his whole family of eleven died that night from eating them. "The disaster was beyond my years," says the narrator. "Grief for one at a time, yes. But eleven...
...Brushwood Boy (Thurs. 10 p.m. CBS). The Columbia Workshop presents Rudyard Kipling's short story adapted for radio by Eustace Wyatt of the Mercury Theatre; directed by Earle McGill...
...ears and joined Mr. Shafer in his campaign, New York Academy of Medicine's Dr. lago Galdston said last week the trouble was not ear-pulling but leg-pulling. Snorted Dr. Galdston: "This is baloney with a thick layer of sausage. If you hung up a boy by his ears for a couple of months, it might change their shape...