Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Learning-by-hearing is the serious side of a new fad for children's recordings, most of which aim only to entertain (see Music). Sales indicate that a lot of desperate parents need help...
Sister Kenny (RKO Radio) is a handsome, emotional film biography, skillfully knitted together out of interesting fact, harmless fiction and debatable propaganda. It will probably entertain most moviegoers-and it will most certainly raise the hackles on the American Medical Association's collective neck...
...radio's Hit Parade, Hill once remarked: "Taking 100% as the total value, we give 90% to the commercials and 10% to the show." To exasperated listeners he explained: "I don't have the right to spend the stockholder's money just to entertain the public...
...take was already close to $8,000,000, with more business to come in September and October (a hunting month). Ontario, in a golden daze, was sure last year's $96,000,000 tourist income would be topped by at least 20%. French Canada estimated that it would entertain at least 15 million Americans, knew only that the profit would be enormous...
Gone was Madame Baby's; gone was Lillian Russell (whose sleekly gowned and strategically bulging figure was not unlike her namesake's); her menage at 92 Ca-dieux Street could entertain whole conventions of tourists at once. Gone also was Madame Cesar's in the more exclusive West End. Only a memory was Madame Alice's where employes and customers alike had been required to wear evening dress...