Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reaction, at 70, to the successful Broadway revival of his 21-year-old The Play's the Thing: "I'm grateful and fatherly and all that, but something of me has vanished with the times . . . Who cares about comedies and dramas when all day long . . . you hear and read about nothing but a sorely troubled world...
...Hollywood, the late Rudolph Valentino was guest of honor at a seance. Some 30 mediums chatted with him while reporters strained in vain to hear. At the guest of honor's request, the mediums said, they sang The Sheik of Araby...
Officers of the University will flood the Philadelphia meeting to bring graduates up to date on present Cambridge affairs. Academic matters will be in the fore, but Alumni will also hear Art Valpey discuss matters of the gridiron at the regular business session of the conference...
...Pinafore" may not be the most artistically successful of the great team's achievements, but it has lyrics that remain a pleasure to hear, even if for the hundredth time; it has very pointed gibes at the British Navy and British class structure that are still packed with wit and meaning. The plot may not amount to very much--but who cares, anyway...
Greta Garbo turned down a chance to be the next Miss Hush in radio's Truth or Consequences guessing game. Her agent sent a message to M.C. Ralph Edwards: "Miss Garbo never heard of you . . . and the one & only time she ever listened to the radio was to hear President Roosevelt announce the war against the Axis...