Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Baritone John Charles Thomas closes a broadcast by saying, "Good night, Mother," when a victorious prize fighter pants into the mike, "Hello, Mom, put on that steak. I'll be right home," they violate the terms on which FCC issues broadcasting licenses. For radio stations hold their licenses only for communication to the public as a whole, are not permitted to broadcast person-to-person messages. Scripts are carefully edited by all stations. But when an enthusiastic broadcaster ad libs some harmless dash out of bounds, FCC makes allowances, does not crack down...
Josephine Hancock Logan, who is pleased to be the donor of the annual Logan prize to Chicago's Art Institute but does not like the modernist quality of recent prizewinning paintings, engineered a rival exhibition of pictures to show "Sanity in Art." Among her placid lady guests and her safe and sane pictures, little old Mrs. Logan wandered, smiling brightly...
...concealed not merely plot but superb dramatic conflict, and that its characters, far from being freaks, were really human beings drawn on the heroic scale. Brilliantly explored by Writer Robert Riskin, Director Frank Capra and the season's most astutely chosen cast, these unforeseen potentialities make the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of 1937 into what is easily the No. 1 cinema comedy...
Wholly successful moving pictures are the consequence of a collaboration too complex for analysis. Nonetheless, if the Motion Picture Academy fails to award Director Capra its prize for his first picture since Lost Horizon, most critics will be justified in surmising that its only excuse will be that he has already won it twice before. Known for his knack of inventing "business," Director Capra was faced with the supreme test in a play that was already as full of business as a beehive. How thoroughly he passed it can best be judged by the fact that his shrewd cinema editing...
Wife of Financier Floyd Odium, Winner Cochran covets the mantle of the late Amelia Earhart more than she does prize money. But when told she had clinched the race and the $12,500, she cried: "Goody, goody!" But the race a Labor Day throng of 300,000 jammed the airport environs to watch was the Thompson Trophy free-for-all, 300 miles around pylons. Hottest shots in the field of eight were flashy Colonel Roscoe Turner, 1934 winner and unscathed veteran of six Thompson competitions; and his reckless young San Diego rival, towheaded Earl Ortman. At 100 miles they...