Word: defunctive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week speed-loving Producer Lippert surpassed himself. He wrapped up three complete features in a mere twelve days of shooting, and also worked a couple of new angles. The pictures take advantage of a cheap, plentiful source of story material: the radio serial. Stemming from Johnny Madero, a defunct network radio program about a private eye, each film uses a "bridge" to link the action of two complete half-hour shows. When TV begins snapping up Hollywood films in earnest, Lippert will simply burn his "bridges" and sell half-hour shorts. Meanwhile, his own distributing company will sell...
Chapman began work on the play in 1947. It was produced in that year by the now-defunct Experimental Theatre in New York. Eventually rights to the show were obtained by the present producer, Chandler Cowles. Dennis King is starred...
...Crimson Radio Network" moved into the now defunct Shepard Hall, which then stood near the Indoor Athletic Building. At this time it was broadcasting through the steam pipes, and listeners had to tap their radios to a radiator. Illegal outside radiation through the air--the Network was non-commercial--seemed slight...
...Government blocked his attendance at Versailles Treaty meetings and at later disarmament conferences, because his presence might have embarrassed the Japanese.) He quarreled with other exiled Korean politicians. (Rhee was for continued passive resistance; other leaders favored violent action.) By World War II, the Provisional Government was almost defunct and Rhee turned over the Korean central agency in China to Kim Koo, Korea's master political assassin...
With the Hi-Hat offering swing groups only occasionally, Everctt's Parkway Club closed, and the Tic-Toc temporarily defunct, Katherine Donahue's Savoy looks to be the last "home of jazz" around stolid Boston. But William L. "Wild Bill" Davison is currently blowing his lungs out at the Savoy, and everyone--especially Miss Donahue--is happy...