Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Girl. The lustrous-limbed Dietrich has played the European circuit longer than any other star, has heard every kind of enemy fire except snipers' bullets. She flew to the Mediterranean last March, shoved across Africa, wheedled her way to Anzio, rattled into Rome two days after it fell. In August she was off again, hopping around Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, getting lost in fogs, doing four-a-days in England. In October she reached France. Last week she was singing in hospitals near Paris; this week she was off to tour the Ninth Army...
...almost never mentioned by his critics. Of the seven or eight plays that he wrote between 1889 and 1894, only two were ever seen upon the stage. The first of these was a dramatic version of his novel, "The American," which did fairly well on the straw-hat circuit but ran for only about two months in London during the fall of 1891. In its later provincial life it was played with a re-written last act, wherein, much against his will, James conceded to popular taste a happy ending for his hero and heroine. Characteristically, James, in a letter...
...takeoff, the men would need dogs to help them try an escape over the ice. Reluctantly they buried three 50-lb. sticks of dynamite, under the snow, staked the 27 youngest and strongest dogs over the charges, attached to the dynamite an alarm clock rigged to close an electric circuit and set off the charges. It was set to go off three hours after the takeoff. The plane barely got off the ice. As they flew away, the last thing the men saw in the vast loneliness of snow and ice was the cheerful, upturned faces of their dogs, patiently...
Spinach to Mother. With 25 years of flat and steeplechase jockeying on both sides of the Atlantic, 13 years of schooling on the U.S. smalltime circuit, Frenchy knew a good horse when he saw one. In August 1943, he saw one at a Chicago track. Despite a game front leg, Happy Issue ran the way Frenchy liked-fast from behind. Her breeding was none too fashionable: Bow To Me, her sire, had already been shunted off to Cuba as a has-been. But her paternal grandsire was the great French racer Epinard (spinach), for whom French-born Pinon had high...
Except for Saturday matinees in the neighborhood cinema circuit, the movie serial that reached its zenith of popularity with "The Perils of Pauline" has given way to series, unconnected in plot, but cast in the same mold: The Great Gildersleeve, Andy Hardy, Laurel and Hardy, Crime Doctor, Doctor Gillespie, Fibber McGeo and Molly. People find these entertaining, just as they like familiar Tchaikowsky and spurn Shostakovich, but no further contribution to a stagnating film-art can come from such mechanically-whipped froth. To use the vernacular, when you've seen one, you've seen...