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Word: extravaganzas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following its established tradition, the Pi Eta will open the performances of "On the Level" with a private show for the alumni tonight at the club house. There will be public showings of the annual extravaganza on Friday and Saturday. A dance is planned following the play on Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pi Eta Extravaganza Opens Tonight With Alumni Show | 3/25/1937 | See Source »

Fusing skating with the dance, Sonja and a chorus of skaters offer an almost unrivaled opportunity for the greatest extravaganza performance of the year. Yet, Hollywood showed admirable restraint and succeeded in maintaining a rather simple and refreshing spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...open condemnation. However, applied in the wrong place, as TIME did very obviously in its yarn on the use of "moteur canon" (i.e., hollow propeller shafts hurling machine gun bullets or small calibre shells) in aerial warfare, it is little more than an exhibition of Munchausen or Fibber McGee extravaganza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1937 | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

Cast and chorus tryouts for "On the Level", 1937 Pi Eta extravaganza, get under way in all earnestness this week as the Fraternity Theatrical Company prepares for its annual Spring production on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PI ETA EXTRAVAGANZA GOING TO REHEARSALS | 2/24/1937 | See Source »

...Avenue (Twentieth Century-Fox), like most musicals, has for a plot a clothesline upon which the producers can hang whatever suits their fancy. This time the line is pretty raveled, the appendages superb. Gary Blake (Dick Powell) is starring in his own extravaganza. One act is a burlesque of Mimi Caraway (Madelein'e Carroll), world's richest girl. Furious Mimi slaps Gary's face, then falls in love with him. He changes the offensive skit, but Mona Merrick (Alice Faye), his jealous leading lady, ad libs to make it worse than ever. Mimi then sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: On the Avenue | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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