Word: funning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sadie goes to an average of two giveaway shows a day, seven days a week. She has probably attended more than 5,000 radio programs, a hands-down record. In the old days, pickings were slim. "We used to go for fun. All you got was little bits of derlies and glassware and all like that...
...Alchemist (by Ben Jonson; produced by the New York City Theatre Company) is an almost ostentatiously neglected comic masterpiece. It could, without doubt, be shorter. But 300 years after it was written and long after alchemy† went out of fashion, the play still teems with hard, bawdy, farcical fun; still gives that well-mated couple, greed and gullibility, a handsome thrashing; still rushes ahead with a plot that the great Samuel Taylor Coleridge adjudged "one of the three most perfect" in literature...
Babe Didrikson Zaharias, all-round woman athlete of athletes, took on a job-without-pay: as "recreational consultant" to Denver's juvenile court she will teach waifs, strays and "bad boys" how to have fun outdoors...
...winner takes a purse reputed to contain a promise of an early marriage certificate. Married and engaged Wellesleyites, pushing baby-carriages instead of hoops, will be running for the fun...
...less neutral grounds of Mutual Hall last week and the Trib players won by a technical knockout, a decision with which the audience seemed clearly in accord. Mr. Duvey had rounded up some clever, earthy comedians and they succeeded in making "The Taming of the Shrew" a lot of fun for everyone...