Word: entertainement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Botty Sanders, rising young folk singer, will entertain an open meeting of the Liberal Union tomorrow at 5 o'clock in Emerson D, HLU officers announced yesterday...
While Hurley and his Varsity mates rest this afternoon in preparation for the league opener with Dartmouth one week hence, it will be a battle of youth versus experience on the Business School field as the Freshmen entertain a favored Boston Lacrosse Club "B" team. This is the season's opener for the undermanned '50 aggregation which can still use some new recruits...
Part of the overall effect of intelligence was undoubtedly achieved by restrained script-writers; much of it is due to the fact that an entertainer's life lends itself better to movies than does a composer's. Both "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (Cohan was primarily an entertainer) and now "The Jolson Story" illustrate the point. Where composers are just composers, and neither necessarily nor usually dramatic personalities, entertainers can entertain in biography as well as in person, and their lives generally have something public and spectacular about them...
...Allens rarely gad about. One night a week they take in a movie. The other evenings, while Fred works, Portland reads or knits in bed-an old vaudeville custom. They rarely entertain. Allen's best friends are "just plain people"-barbers, shoeshine boys, paper boys, waiters, delicatessen storekeepers. With them, says Comic Henry Morgan, he is "a reluctantly amiable guy." From them, he collects an authentic U.S. idiom...
...just what was the U.S. getting? Fine service, said the Commission-from a few leaders in each field. But from the rank & file, deplorable performance. The movies were out to entertain, and nothing else; the radio was out to sell soup, soap & cereals, period; the press was out for scoops and sensations...