Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paris, which still admires Mistinguett's ancient legs, still admired Cléo's ancient beauty. But the world had become shabby. "The opera," she said, "isn't what it used to be. In the old days around 1900 the grand staircase and the lobby used to be a show in itself. Nowadays people go to the opera in their working clothes, and I am afraid that pretty soon they will go in their overalls...
...course, there are such recognized horrors as soap operas and trite commercials. And singing commercials! Really, it hasn't been proved to me that anybody listens to them. But the most conspicuous lack in your broadcasting isn't appreciated here at all. You all seem to console yourselves that, with all its faults, American radio is far ahead of anybody else in broadcasting techniques. That's absurd...
...view: "Toscanini isn't God, but he's the next thing...
...keep it that way, he intends to order a general economic belt tightening. His first act as Western president will be to introduce (on interoffice memos) a Li'l Abner-like cartoon of an Indian (Western's trademark) tightening his belt. Said Drinkwater: "A fat Indian isn't an efficient Indian...
...manner at their characteristic best. That "Top Hat" bases a mounting series of un-excruciating events on a carefully mistaken identity and calls it a story matters little. Astaire and Ginger Rogers are on a Boston screen, and they sing Irving Berlin songs and dance to them, and there isn't slightest him of a neurosis or psychoanalyst in the whole picture...