Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mother Carey's Chickens (RKO Radio) is Kate Douglas Wiggin's folksy story of the ups & downs of a horse-&-buggy family. Filmed with a heartiness and warmth calculated to reawaken memories of toasty nights around the parlor baseburner, Mother Carey's Chickens joins Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's homely Judge Hardy and Twentieth Century-Fox's happy-go-lucky Jones Family in cinema's new grand march to the tune of Home, Sweet Home...
DEATH FROM A TOP HAT - Clayton Rawson-Putnam ($2). Two murders in locked rooms in one day; both victims and all suspects expert magicians; the solution by an expert, retired conjurer. Ingenious plot, amiable spoofing of detective-story formulas, alight story weakened by overlong discussions of parlor tricks...
...Welsh in the family way, and Emily's brother Tip smashed in the side of his head. There was consternation in the poolrooms. No one but Sam could hold the rackets together. At once his generals began quarreling. Just before Sam died in a friend's front parlor Max tried to get the doctor to give him an injection so he could say a few words in the presence of witnesses. Outside on the sidewalk, in the dawn, Art and Perry and Cork stood with shoulders hunched and hands in pockets, wondering bleakly what was to become...
...French Academy at 53 was André Maurois (real name: Emile Herzog), journalist, critic, biographer, historian, lecturer, professional Anglophile and the New York Times's eminent French trained seal. A onetime textile manufacturer, Andre Maurois went into the more elegant business of writing and became a parlor philosopher with the glibness of an Emil Ludwig and the precious outlook of an H. L. Mencken. Last week he followed into the Academy arch-Royalist Charles Maurras, also elected within the month (TIME, June...
Radio's retreat into the old simplicities of parlor games and porch-swing entertainment was extended to the dining room last week when CBS put a weekly series of dinner parties on its summer broadcasting schedule. Invitations are going out for Wednesday evening dinners. Place: CBS' Manhattan studios. Host: Professor Lyman Lloyd Bryson of Columbia University's Teachers College, chairman of Columbia's Adult Education Board...