Word: entertainers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supplies no opportunity to evaluate Warner Brothers' claims since it makes no demands upon her talents beyond: 1) impersonating a rich girl who finds wealth such an obstacle to a full life that she makes friends with a window-cleaner and rents a furnished apartment in which to entertain him and his friends; 2) listening to Dick Powell sing. She meets these demands effectively. The impression she gives audiences is that of Janet Gaynor with a brain. A shade more memorable than either the Hutchinson performance...
Shubert: "America Sings"--musical play which has to do with the life of Stephen Foster and his music. On Tuesday this theater will entertain the opening of "Say When"--a new musical starring the husky voiced Harry Richman...
...ground that, by not flying a protest flag immediately after the first foul, Endeavour had deprived Rainbow of a chance to enter a counterprotest, thereby preventing the Committee from disqualifying Endeavour in case it found Rainbow rather than Endeavour to be the injured party, the Race Committee refused to entertain the Sopwith protest. Mr. Sopwith kept silent until after...
...made this edict to end all code-making in 30 days, he announced that he had written the President that as soon as code making was done NRA would cease to be a one-man job and should be administered by a non-partisan commission. Then, lest the public entertain any premature hopes of his early retirement, he added...
...asking they would gladly take him fishing for the great a'u (swordfish) in Kona waters, drive him through Hawaii's fern forests, show him sugar-cane fields, pineapple plantations, the leper colony, crown him with leis, feed him poi (taro root paste), or entertain him at a native feast (luau) with straw-skirt ballet...