Word: livings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been here since 1897 and we never had any real trouble with her," he says. "Course they had to rebore some of the wheels back in '38. Stopped her for a week then. Old lady down on Summer Street called. Said she couldn't live without the clock, but guess she managed all right...
...Crusty Warning. His eager organizers knew what they were up against. Some 13,000 of New York City's 31,500 musicians live in Brooklyn, but still Brooklyn had never been able to keep an orchestra going. Its first, started in 1857,* had been one of the U.S.'s first. It folded in 1891, when famed German-born Conductor Theodore Thomas left it to become the Chicago Symphony's first conductor...
...Carrying the theory a step farther, he has decided that his big shows are too much of a drain on his customers' resources, week in & week out. He has just begun a policy of alternating three weeks of Latin movies with a week's "live" presentation. "Now," says he, "the stage shows will really be fantastic...
...hours at home in their big apartment on fashionable Gracie Square, a stone's pitch from Mayor O'Dwyer's mansion and the tooting tugs on the East River. (A deafening blast once startled a telephoner into asking Mrs. Trippe: "Madame, do you live on a barge...
Hollywood may shout about a movie and New York critics rave about it-but Main Street can still give it a cold shoulder. Theater owners generally listen to Main Street, where most of their paying customers live. Before booking a movie, many a cautious exhibitor scans the pages of Boxoffice and Motion Picture Herald for the thumbnail reviews by exhibitors who have already shown the picture...