Word: hiss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast plan for a combined land and seaplane terminal far outstripping anything existing in the U. S. Last week, first with a spade and then at the controls of a steam shovel, he gouged out the first scoopful of sand in his $13,000,000 project. The hiss of steam as he inexpertly spilled half the giant spoon's earth near the waiting truck was not less searingly exultant than the blast that came from the swart, little Mayor of New York: "This will be to Newark as Kirsten Flagstad is to Gypsy Rose...
...which had the benefit of a slow-motion reprint. The main clash is over so quickly that the impression is simply one of furious confusion. All taken from the police side, it shows no fighting closeups, none of the strikers in action. Audiences last week did not begin to hiss, boo and shout until they had seen close-ups of the dead, dying and wounded...
Other Great Lakes Exposition attractions are Winterland, a big skating rink with a troupe of performers headed by Maribel Yerxa Vinson; performances of The Drunkard, the hiss-the-villain melodrama which had a long run in Manhattan in 1934; Tony Sarg's marionettes. The management declared flatly that this year there would be no "peep shows" or "gyp joints." Last week the first seven days' attendance stood...
...very Irish owner (Sara Allgood of The Plough and the Stars) is unable to pay his long-overdue license fee. This innocent situation causes the town provost's political career to be ruined, for his decision to execute un licensed Patsy arouses the dog-loving electorate, not to hiss, but to bark him out of office. There are also two divorce cases and a love affair attributable to Patsy before the final curtain falls...
...Madhavan. Young Madhavan has studied dancing in India since he was 12. This is his first trip to the U. S., his first season with Shankar who considers him a better dancer than himself. Critics, mindful of the subtlety of the older dancer, his hands which can all but hiss like snakes, disagree. But they praise Madhavan for his energy, his strong, fluid movements, the ease with which he holds himself in desperately hard positions...