Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that morning, after long questioning, Tapper Ryan asked permission to use a ladies' washroom near the mayor's office. Leaving his hat and coat on a chair, the tap expert beat it out a back window of City Hall and got clean away. While the cops bayed after him, Mayor O'Dwyer brought in the "someone" named by Tapper Ryan. This turned out to be a lawyer and private eye named John Broady, who, as it happens, works for none other than do-gooder Clendenin John Ryan and years before had gathered evidence for Ryan...
...plays are A.A. Milne's "The Man in the Bowler Hat," an old-fashioned melodrama, which offers everything from a heroine in a strapless gown to a villain, and Essex Dane's "Tuberoses." which tells a tragic episode concerning three sisters...
...After burial services, the coffins were laid down in shallow uncovered trenches. Last week when the number of unburied dead topped 1,000, the cardinal called out his seminarians. Tightlipped, he rode his gravediggers through the cemetery's picket line, while a silent union man respectfully touched his hat to his cardinal arch bishop. It was a serious decision that the cardinal had made. Many a Catholic union man was troubled and angry at the sight of the young strikebreakers who would soon be priests-many of them pastors of workingman flocks...
Above club fights, cooking hints, quiz shows, double-dome discussions, and the other knickknacks of television, TV fans love vaudeville. TV has brought it all back-from trained dogs to baggy-pants comics. Some of it is as drearily old-hat as the Keith circuit in 1912. But there are glittering exceptions. The hour-long Admiral Broadway Revue (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC-TV & Du Mont) is an example of good vaudeville...
...Admiral show is new to television audiences, but Broadway oldtimers have seen it growing in bits & pieces for years- in Greenwich Village nightclubs, fashionable saloons on Manhattan's East Side, and the Pocono Mountains sector of the straw-hat circuit. Its jokes and patter are brittle, rowdy, funny and full of satirical special reference. A number of its people (most of them members of a permanent cast) grew up in show business with such bright youngsters as Danny Kaye and Betty Garrett. By & large, the costumes, decor and choreography are better than may be found in any nightclub...