Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cowards & Weaklings." Bill Green, it turned out, was counting his chickens too soon. Four afternoons later, newsmen listened to an angry roar that boomed now & then through the closed doors of Parlor D. John L. Lewis, it seemed, was damned if he'd sign any such affidavit. Any members who would knuckle down to the Taft-Hartley Act, he cried, were "cowards and weaklings...
...defines himself as a parlor wit who thinks of radio as a parlor instrument ("some homes got them next to toilets"). But he seems hard-pressed to transport the highball-and-cigaret intimacy of his friends' living rooms into the U.S. parlor. His cement-mixer voice strains with eagerness to wow the audience. And while most of his parodies and songs are funny, the jokes which string them together sometimes clank (sample: "As for personal habits ... I ain't got none...
Candid Mike eavesdrops on people and records their unguarded remarks for broadcasting. In seven weeks on the air, the show has picked up the meows from a beauty parlor, lurked behind two unsuspecting expectant fathers in an obstetrician's office, listened in on a man's attempts to pick up a girl, argued with a bill collector, recorded what happened when a baby was left on an angry woman's doorstep...
...scare the trade away." But not in fashionable Westwood, a Cadillac's spurt away from Hollywood. With searchlights, clouds of soap bubbles, and a few cinemactor customers (Allan Jones and Pat O'Brien) to give it atmosphere, the grand opening of "the world's swankiest tonsorial parlor" last week drew thousands of spectators...
Married. Herman Shumlin, 48, bald, bespectacled, parlor-pink Broadway producer (Watch on the Rhine, The Male Animal); and Carmen England, 33, onetime screen bit player; he for the second time, she for the third; in Santa Monica...