Word: dells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nephew; his old pals (including Jimmy Gleason) scorn him when he gets to be an executive, but welcome him back to the fold when it turns out that his daughter won't marry the boss's son after all. Even a character named "Digger" O'Dell, an undertaker with a morgue full of morbid jokes, is not out of place in Bendix' parlor. Moviegoers may wish they had stayed at home around the radio, where someone could keep a hand on the tuning knob...
Complaint Dept. In Colorado Springs, G. E. Dell recovered his stolen 1939 sedan with a surly note from the thief: "Your car ain't no damn good...
...they make their way out of their leafy open-air theater, St. Louisans can be comfortably proud of their Municipal Opera, which is neither municipally owned nor opera. Philadelphia's summer concerts in Robin Hood Dell had folded in midseason, and Manhattan's popular Lewisohn Stadium concerts had limped through to an $84,000 deficit. But the St. Louis company has taken in the most money ($650,000) of any season in its history, and played to its biggest one-night audience (11,935 f°r a performance of Rio Rita) during its 12½-week season...
Last week, Amparo set out to show her brother, and the public,"what she can do on her own. She picked a bad time and a worse place: Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell, the night the Republican convention opened. When she finished Liszt's bombastic Piano Concerto No. 1, the 5,000 people in the Dell cheered. The critics cheered too, but less noisily: Amparo had some of her brother's lightning in her fingers, but not enough of his thunder...
...Dell, Fawcett, Hillman, Hunter, Ideal and Macfadden, with a combined fan magazine circulation...