Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Town Meeting (Thurs. 9:30 p. m. NBC-Blue). Lecturer Edward Tomlinson, Author Major George Fielding Eliot (The Ramparts We Watch), Professor Charles G. Fenwick discuss "How Can the American Nations Cooperate for World Peace...
Adapted from I. A. R. Wylie's Saturday Evening Post serial, The Gay Banditti, The Young in Heart never permits its audience much doubt about how the lion & lamb relationship of its major characters will eventually resolve itself. However, if it has often been told before, the story has rarely been told better. Richard Wallace's direction, Paul Osborn's screen play, Franz Waxman's score and the acting of precisely the right cast combine to make it the wittiest and most civilized cinema comedy of the year. Good sequence: Colonel Carleton and his son, whose...
Hollywood, to whom such phenomena should be as interesting as a $1,000,000 bank balance to a Wall Street broker, remains as stubbornly unaware of Autry as other U. S. population centres. Autry pictures rarely play in major Los Angeles theatres, and Autry is seldom recognized on the rare occasions when he appears in public. Irritated by his obscurity, the cinema's most popular star draws attention to himself by wearing cowboy clothes off screen as well as on, has a special white gabardine cowboy suit for evening wear. He takes off his cowboy suits only...
...audience but for English swing fans who heard it over an exclusive BBC broadcast. King of Swing Benny Goodman was conspicuously absent. He was at Manhattan's Town Hall playing with the sedate Budapest String Quartet in an unswung version of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Major. Chamber-music alligators found Goodman's classical tooting almost in the groove...
...brotherhood of crotchety misogynists (at least during working hours) who refuse to allow women sportswriters to sit in its press boxes. The fraternity enjoys such perquisites as free sojourns in the South during spring training and deluxe road trips during the season (usually as guests of the major-league clubs). In return, the Association's members keep baseball alive by reporting its games at great length and they also perform the annual post-season chore of selecting the "most valuable player" in each major league...