Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, the circuit will thrive on revivals: The Heiress (a good bet for one of the summer's most frequently offered shows), Edward, My Son, Light Up the Sky, The Winslow Boy. The summer theaters will also get opera: Broadway's successful The Telephone and The Medium, offered by a company starring Marie Powers. Other likely favorites: Blithe Spirit, John Loves Mary, 0 Mistress Mine...
While the summer producers laid big plans, they thought that caution would be a good idea-for the other fellow. They feared that the slumping box office on Broadway and in the cinemansions would spread to the citronella circuit. Besides, costs were up about 5% after last year's sharp rise of 30%, and admission prices were as high as they could safely...
Danny, the toomler* who came out of New York's borsch circuit to become a top Broadway and Hollywood comic, was riding his greatest triumph: he was the U.S. traveling salesman who had won the heart of Britannia. It was not just an entertainer's hit; visiting Americans thought that he had been funnier before. By simply being his uninhibited self, he somehow embodied for Britons all that was likable about the U.S., and all that was reassuring to grey socialist Britain...
Other newly-elected officers are: first vice-president, Calvert Magruder, LL.B. '16 of Cambridge, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; second vice-president, Monte L. Lemann '03, LL.B. '06 of New Orleans, Louisiana; secretary, C. Tracy Barnes LL.B. '37, of Providence, Rhode Island; treasurer, Paul F. Hellmuth LL.B. '43 of Boston; and assistant treasurer and secretary, Harrison S. Dimmitt, LL.B. '25 of Cambridge...
...early wanderings took him along the "pumpkin show" circuit, from Tulsa to Lewiston, Idaho. Race meetings lasted one or two days, and purses were a piddling $100. About 30 vagabond horsemen roamed this circuit, and none ever got rich?or starved?mainly because of a secret mutual-assistance pact that no matter who won a race everybody with a horse in it shared equally in the purse...