Word: cues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When an entertainer who is born on the 4th of July takes that as his cue to make himself a one-man patriotic holiday, he's bound to turn out to be an intriguing character. And when a vigorously produced and directed movie is based on his career, top-flight entertainment is the result. George M. Cohan is such a character: "Yankee Doodle Dandy" is such a film, and the sum total is just what might be expected...
Taking another cue from Hollywood, Houston trains his singing actors to master the delayed timing of gags (known to the profession as "takes and double takes"). Bob Hope is his model. Says Houston: "Our shows come out as plays with music." And tired businessmen have hailed them as "opera for husbands...
Taking their cue from the farm bloc, a number of the Harvard Square barbers have also decided to do their wartime clientele for all it's worth. With the plea that raised costs on labor, soap, towels, and tonic force them to raise prices, the barbers have chosen to jump the cost of a haircut from fifty to sixty or sixty-five cents. Actually it appears that only those who have long gone unwashed would require soap, towels, or tonic for a simple haircut. And, as for labor, the average barber is now receiving sixty-five cents on the cutting...
Whether the eruptive scenes he had painted were the proper stuff to soothe Chilean children at their library tables; whether Chile's Government, in an anti-Marxist mood, might some day take a cue from Mexico's, and board them up, remained for the future to decide. One of Siqueiros' most famous murals, The Burial of a Worker, in Mexico City's National Preparatory School, has been hidden behind a board fence ever since...
...Barrymore went on the air, majestically insulting himself on the Rudy Vallee hour. Shattered in health, he often could not go on, lived in & out of hospitals. Fortnight ago he turned up, staggering with pain, for a rehearsal, finally said: "I guess this is one time I miss my cue...