Word: halls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Hollywood studio theater seats only 1,400 people ("We get queues as long as the Radio City Music Hall," says Keighley), only a handful of Lux's devoted audience have ever seen their idols in the flesh. To make it up to the others, CBS has distributed a brochure on the stars' "mike mannerisms" that is jam-packed with nuggety information. Samples: Bing Crosby "always rehearses with his pipe clenched between his teeth, even when singing"; Robert Cummings "reads lines from a semi-crouch, like a boxer"; Joan Crawford is a "microphone-clutcher," while Barbara Stanwyck...
While this year's band marches with the Cadet Corps today from Allston train station to the stadium, the members from former years will parade through Harvard Square, leaving Memorial Hall at noon...
According to present plans the two bands will share playing time in the stands and participate in joint drills between halves. The anniversary celebration will end with a post-game dinner in Memorial Hall tonight...
...Basil Rathbone tells the audience Toad inhabits his ancestral home, Toad Hall. Instead of acting with the dignity befitting a young man in such circumstances, Toad is a madcap adventurer, a faddist whose fancies often become manias of the most compulsive (and hilarious) sort. After cavorting about the countryside in a canary-yellow cart drawn by a horse named Cyril, Toad winds up in the Tower of London...
Officials at City Hall complained that the citizenry in the Harvard area is often vociferous about poor government in Cambridge but will not take the trouble to insure the election of capable...