Word: lib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following fall, Al Jolson, between recorded songs in Warner's The Jazz Singer, did some ad-lib talking: "You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks. Listen to this." Audiences were enchanted. After Warner's 1928 Lights of New York, the first all-talking feature, more than a thousand movie theaters throughout the U.S. hastily wired for sound. So did every major Hollywood studio...
...E.D.S.T.), also proves that she knows how to make people talk on the air. This 14-month-old show follows the same unrehearsed technique, pitting fast talkers like Henry Morgan against four career girls. Questions submitted by listeners, mostly about love and marriage, set off a series of ad-lib crackers. Example...
Elaine and her fellow black marketeers will be barred forever from French universities. Functionary Houel last week faced a possible five-year prison term. Cried Le Parisien Libéré: "A grave symptom of moral rottenness...
Meet the Press (Fri. 10:30 p.m., Mutual). Three Washington newspapermen work on Ohio's Senator Robert Taft in one of radio's steadily best ad-lib forums...
Every Saturday morning, Herson plants a WRC microphone on some Congressman's breakfast table, gives & takes an ad-lib chatter over ham & eggs. The only rule: no politics. Beyond that, Senators and Representatives and their families discuss every subject that should be aired and some that shouldn...