Word: hubbub
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...Theatre was shaken by news that Strip-Tease Dancer Diane Raye had arrived from Manhattan to do her act at the London Palladium. Though the average Briton did not know what "striptease" meant, he knew it was a Broadway specialty, suspected that therefore it was probably indecent. So much hubbub foamed up in London's press that the staid Palladium canceled the act and the more racy Victoria Palace grabbed...
After so much Hollywood hubbub it was logical to suppose that The Good Earth would turn out as chaotic as its preparation and as superficial as the novel was deep. Instead, it emerged as a real cinema epic, faithful in spirit, plot and acting to its forebear, sure to rank as one of the great pictures of all time...
...leadership of Pacific Longshoremen. Last week President Ryan bluntly refused to call out his Atlantic longshoremen in a sympathy strike. Last spring Seaman Curran was the leader of the "outlaw" seamen's strike in New York Harbor which failed to win higher wages but caused serious harbor hubbub for three months (TIME, May 25 et seq.). Last week 1,000 members of his insurgent Seamen's Defense Committee voted a strike in Manhattan, delayed several ships from sailing. Night later, 1,000 members of the International Seamen's Union pack-jammed Cooper Union, heard their officers refuse...
...moments later in St. Louis' Municipal Auditorium, Alfred M. Landon took the platform, accompanied for the first time in the campaign by his wife and his daughter. The crowd shouted in frenzy. "Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen," he began. Not a word was audible above the hubbub. Long-suffering as Caspar Milquetoast, he repeated his salutation ten or a dozen times before the crowd permitted him to be heard. Then, halting frequently, with eyes often searching anxiously for his place in his manuscript, Alf Landon read the closing speech of his campaign, not a much better orator than...
...first of these two idle pieces, the hubbub centers around Gracie Allen and George Burns, as the sponsors of the Platt Golf Ball hour. But one is scarcely expected to be content with the inanitities of the one as parried by the harshness of the other. For recruits from the other come in troops. There are Jack Benny and Bob (Bazooka) Burns, Martha Ray and Benny Fields, and Leopold Stokowski doing some extraordinary things with his hands, which his orchestra turns into music...