Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part owner. In 1925, Rothafel left the Capitol to direct the new, plush-lined Roxy Theatre, took his "Gang" idea with him. The Capitol's program continued as "Major Bowes's Capitol Theatre Family," with Bowes acting as an unctuously friendly master of ceremonies in the Roxy manner. In 1934, a veteran at the microphone, Major Bowes began an "Amateur Hour" over New York's small Station WHN. Last year, after Roxy had failed on a spectacular scale to make a go of Radio City's gigantic Music Hall, Major Bowes's hour had become...
Commencing in the rotary-trafficked confusion of the Square we find the University presenting one of its very most delectable review day double feature bills. The starred item is Robert Hitchcock's now famous "Thirty-Nine Steps," a superbly exciting mystery film in the very best Hitchcock manner. Robert Donst and the very lovely Madeleine Carroll play the romantic leads in a story which surges through a series of thrilling escapades all kept in the lighter vein by a steady flow of genuinely amusing dialogue. Probably the last chance to see a definitely out of the ordinary picture. The companion...
...account (TIME, May 25) of Mrs. Roosevelt's party for wayward girls is revolting to any woman, but to a Southerner, unthinkable. Surely attention could have been brought to the plight of these young women (I don't call 20-year-olds children!) in a less public manner. A visit to the White House should be preserved as a reward for more worthy groups of young people...
Still in circulation is the pleasant little story of an energetic House dance chairman, and his attempts to have the last House dance of the year go down in history. It has, indeed, attained wide celebrity, but not quite in the manner intended by the publicity-conscious chairman...
Written by the late Elsie Schauffier, "Parnell" dramatizes the romantic affair between the famed leader of the Irish Party and the beautiful Katherine O'Shea. Irresistibly attracted at first sight the lovers are impelled to consummate their feelings in the only manner possible under the rigid British divorce laws. They take up common residence with the tacit consent of Kate's husband, the fatuous dandy, Captain William O'Shea. Aspiring to political position which he can gain only through Parnell's favor, O'Shea makes himself so universally disliked that a breach arises in the Irish Party...