Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...star mill who looks as if he should do right well for himself, snarls his way through a ninety-minute career as the poor boy who goes bad and does a fine job of it. He starts out by rolling drunks in alleys, works the reform school circuit for a while, swaggers up to be a big gun in his thoroughly realistic neighborhood, drives his good faithful wife to sticking her head in the gas-oven, and finally is hauled up on a cop-killing charge. Bogart, who has also come up from the ranks, but switched to the right...
Above club fights, cooking hints, quiz shows, double-dome discussions, and the other knickknacks of television, TV fans love vaudeville. TV has brought it all back-from trained dogs to baggy-pants comics. Some of it is as drearily old-hat as the Keith circuit in 1912. But there are glittering exceptions. The hour-long Admiral Broadway Revue (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC-TV & Du Mont) is an example of good vaudeville...
...Admiral show is new to television audiences, but Broadway oldtimers have seen it growing in bits & pieces for years- in Greenwich Village nightclubs, fashionable saloons on Manhattan's East Side, and the Pocono Mountains sector of the straw-hat circuit. Its jokes and patter are brittle, rowdy, funny and full of satirical special reference. A number of its people (most of them members of a permanent cast) grew up in show business with such bright youngsters as Danny Kaye and Betty Garrett. By & large, the costumes, decor and choreography are better than may be found in any nightclub...
...closely fought game between the two top teams of the inter-House circuit was the chief event in a day packed with House athletics, including eight league basketball games and one hockey clash...
Although Missouri law still makes segregation mandatory in public schools, that line may be weakening, too. Recently the Missouri State Teachers Association voted to accept Negro teachers into membership for the first time. Last week, St. Louis' circuit court was deliberating on the case of 20-year-old Marjorie Toliver, who had sued to be transferred from city-operated Stowe Teachers College (for Negroes) to the exclusively white Harris Teachers College, also city-operated. In Columbia this week, students were planning to poll faculty and fellow undergraduates on whether Negroes should be admitted to the University of Missouri...