Word: exits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Report has it that "Blue Skies" marks Fred Astaire's dancing exit from the screen. The performance of Astaire's brilliant extremities causes even the easeful singing of a portly Der Bingle to pale by comparison. Two of Astaire's routines are especially good--a top-hat-and-cane number, "Putting On The Ritz," and a technicolorful costume piece, "Heat Wave." While not quite up to the standard of his "Limehouse Blues" performance in "Ziegfield Follies," they still feature Mr. Astaire, and that, fans, will suffice...
...rented Atlanta hall Columbian Burke wildly harangued his audience of riffraff. Suddenly there was a crash of glass; a cloud of tear gas sent the listeners coughing and choking toward the exit. His lean face bright with sweat, Burke leaned through the broken window and shook his fist. He bawled: "Come back here, you Jew. We'll get you yet." To emergency police he shouted accusingly: "Some Communist...
...expulsion until Oct. 3. About the middle of September he ostensibly booked passage on a Portuguese ship for France. On the morning of Oct. 3 he boarded a train bound for the French frontier. At the border a P.I.D.E. guard told him: "You haven't got an exit permit; so you can't continue." Displaying his expulsion document, Saporiti said: "What more of an exit visa could you want?" The guard went away; the Saporitis entered France...
...Exit Hamlet Harlow to sleep! Perchance to dream of an undefeated team--ay, there's the rub. But come the ides of November, and 'ere long even the Bulldog which barks at Yale, Sirrah, may be muzzled by the Crimson gale...
Crestfallen, the little man in the big beret made for the exit. As he reached the door, the official shouted after him: "One thing more. If there are any fleas here, they must have been brought by delegates...