Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speak of the Devil (produced by the Everyman Theatre). Johann Wolfgang von Goethe must have turned in his grave last week when his immortal Faust was produced under the title Speak of the Devil. Then again, he may have been delighted it was not called Faust...
...instead of numbers. As the studio orchestra plays its string of some 20 tune choruses, listeners are supposed to identify and check off the titles on their cards. First one to fill a line across rushes to the telephone, dials a special number, shouts: "Musico!" Any single line filled may win a bag of groceries. Specially-designated "Cash" lines may win up to $100. For last week's big game over WGN, 1,100,000 listeners held cards, kept 25 National Tea special telephone operators busy with 10,000 Musicos...
Peace is mainly something to argue about at America's Town Meeting of the Air. For the last four years this program, Radio's No. 1 public forum, has provided weekly October-to-May battles on all manner of current topics, with headliners (Ickes, Eleanor Roosevelt, Earl Browder, Wendell Willkie, etc.) in the main bouts, and audiences winding up each week's card with a free...
...some 500 U. S. & Canadian cowboys have chosen rodeoing as a career-well aware that in an arena they may make more money in 60 seconds than they can make in a year on the range. Besides, they can buy fancy shirts and see the world. Last week, after nine months of jogging around-to Salinas, Pendleton, Cheyenne, Calgary and scores of lesser roundups-the cream of the professional cowpunchers gathered in the midst of Manhattan's skyscrapers for the climax of the season: the 14th annual World Series Rodeo in Madison Square Garden-26 days...
...millions who could not otherwise enjoy them. Last week, with a rush of appropriate sentiments, the first U. S. art telecast took place in Manhattan. Haled before an NBC "ike" was Artist Charles Sheeler, whose retrospective show had just opened at the Museum of Modern Art. Said he: "It may even be that television has brought us to the threshold of another Renaissance in the visual arts." Spectators were more skeptical, thought the flickering, televised images of Artist Sheeler's paintings looked like magic lantern slides. But all agreed the incident was historic...