Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also showing is "Hello, Frisco, Hello" with Alice Faye, John Payne, and Lynn Bari. The costumes for the lavish Barb'ry Coast shows-within-show are designed for technicolor, to say nothing of Alice's blue eyes, which regularly fill with tears. "You'll Never Know" is on the musical bill of fare. The talent is rationed...
There was a whoopla in Toronto last week that should soon spread all over Canada. The Canadian Army unloosed a high-spirited, always likable, often lavish soldier show. The Yank's This Is The Army had given it a model to learn from and then disregard. Two Toronto sergeants, 26-year-old Frank Shuster and 24-year-old Johnny Wayne, had authored a peppy book, some perky tunes and lyrics. Canada's Jack Arthur, Broadway's Romney Brent and Hollywood's Aida Broadbent had punched the show into shape. And civilian donations had decked...
...Thomas' remarks about music have a lofty, Tory tone. He takes a poor view of the musical tastes of the masses, declares that great music can exist only when furthered by men of wealth and discrimination. Remembering his own lavish, costly activities as a patron, Sir Thomas is irritated by people who declare that fine music should be put on a paying basis. "Music," says he, "is a parasitical luxury, supported by the few. It is something that must be inflicted on the public...
...Grauman took a show on tour to Los Angeles, stayed there. In no time he had opened Grauman's Million Dollar Theater, the largest and most lavish Cinemansion of its day. Then he bought a Hollywood cornfield and built Grauman's Egyptian, a bewilderingly garish "architectural crazy house." So successful were its showings that in the first few years it ran only eight pictures. In 1927 came Grauman's Chinese, his masterpiece in Hollywood rococo...
...Light of the World (NBC), 15-minute, Monday-through-Friday afternoon Biblical drama, has jumped high in favor since the war. Sponsored by General Mills, the playlets started in the Garden of Eden, are now in King Solomon's lavish times...