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Word: ende (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were 28 shows on Broadway. June 1 there were 16. Such a slump is normal enough at season's end, but this year Broadway thought that the New York World's Fair would keep her dolled up in her midwinter ermines. Instead, with New Yorkers scurrying to Flushing and out-of-towners in no rush to get to New York, the Fair has Broadway limping about in rags. Last month within a few days more casts petitioned Actors' Equity Association to be allowed to take cuts than at any other time in Equity's history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Revelry by Night | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Palisades, is Ben Marden's ornate million-dollar Riviera. Its show, gaudy and gay but clean as one of Beau Brummell's neckcloths, has routine ballet and crooning, a panting jitterbug fest, Comic Joe Lewis, who-after rusticating most of the evening-goes to town at the end, and Mary Raye and Naldi, whose beautiful dancing steals the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Revelry by Night | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...nonskid coat hanger on which trousers will not bunch up by sliding to one end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...spring, radio's small fry get their big chance to try out new program ideas. Reason: most of the big-name, expensive radio shows leave the air during the spring and summer, when listeners presumably spend less time at home. At summer's end, when the regulars return, small-fry survivors are few. Of last year's dozens of new shows, the standout success is Information Please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring Tryouts | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...studio audience, asked to name, for example, three vegetables beginning with S, win $2 for each right answer. If a mike-scared quizee can think of spinach, cannot remember squash or salsify, he wins only $2, and the remaining $4 goes into a jackpot. Near the program's end the candidates get a chance to share the jackpot by writing answers to a Toughie (e.g., Name three State capitals named after Presidents). If there is still no winner, the money goes into next week's pot. Biggest jackpot thus far, a three-weeker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring Tryouts | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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