Word: entertainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...timeworn wheeze among U.S. movie producers is that a Pine-Thomas picture run backwards would entertain an audience as much as the same film shown in due order. It is the standard opening for the observation that however the film is run it will be a money maker...
...living it down. The predicament: Miss Stanwyck, a highly publicized writer of recipes for a woman's magazine, has been pretending to her avid public (and to her honest publisher, Mr. Greenstreet) that she is a Connecticut country housewife, mother and cook. When the publisher insists that she entertain him and War Hero Morgan over Christmas, she is forced to make a hasty collection of the source of her recipes (Restaurateur Sakall), a phony husband (Reginald Gardiner), his Connecticut house, a neighbor's baby...
...band had been stationed backstage to entertain the galleries while the delegates were arriving. Conditioned to The Star-Spangled Banner, hundreds rose when the first bars sounded. It was a false alarm. For reasons unknown, the band successively played Lover, Come Back to Me; Stout-Hear ted Men; Wanting You. When the band got to The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, the galleries were giggling...
Idle for the vacation period, Coach Jaako Mikkola's winter track squad will resume activities again on January 13 when they entertain a set of relay teams from Rhode Island State College...
Captain Mildred McAfee, brisk, athletic, curly-haired head of the WAVES, ardent feminist, suggested that since volunteer lady hostesses "resent" having WAVES, WACs, SPARs and women marines at their servicemen's parties, husbands of hostesses ought to get together and entertain servicewomen. One of her WAVES had told her about one such party, "held in somebody's back yard because they had a swimming pool-it was not an organized thing." Everyone had a good time despite the fact some of the men were old enough to be the girls' fathers...