Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Television. At Hyde Park Corner, on the return route of the Procession, the most modern communication system of all was brought into play-Television. In its most ambitious experiment yet, B. B. C. trained three filmless scanning cameras connected with the central transmitting station by cable costing $5,000 per mile. An estimated audience of 50,000 televiewers in an area of 7,500 sq. mi. watched the screens of their little receiving sets (average cost: $400) as the Procession passed, the King & Queen bowed close up, the excited Princesses waved and giggled. By no means perfect, this visual report...
...Castle burned off the Jersey shore, the S. E. P. was featuring a newspaper short story by Manuel Komroff, based on the Titanic disaster, called "Never Misspell a Name." In 1935, Test Pilot James ("Jimmy") Collins plunged to his death a few weeks after the Post ran his article "Return to Earth," a graphic piece of writing describing the plane-tester's feelings as he shot toward the ground at 400 m.p.h. Same year came the Post's most melodramatic news-coincidence, the article "Prelude to a Heterocrat-the Evolution of Huey Long." which appeared...
...called names far less flattering, which so ''diminished" his "dignity as a man and as an artist'' that he went back to Europe in a huff. Said he: "If the American people will express the wish to have me here again, I'll gladly return and sing with all my soul." For five years Sparrow Gigli warbled in Continental concerts, grew a paunch in Munich beer halls, dabbled in German cinemas. Then Hollywood finally called him again to the U. S. Last week, much fatter than in his Metropolitan heyday and resembling both New York...
...convened before its rivals. Pictures about which MGM salesmen heard most in Hollywood last fortnight were Kim, co-starring Freddie Bartholomew and Robert Taylor, and Idiot's Delight starring Clark Gable. Other major MGM ventures will be Girl of the Golden West (Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy) ; The Return of the Thin Man (William Powell and Myrna Loy). Total MGM product will be 52 pictures at the most. On MGM's list but not yet assigned are Silas Marner, As Thousands Cheer, Tish, Bright Girl, Pride and Prejudice...
...United Brewers Industrial Foundation, devoted to promoting beer as a mild, nutritious beverage "for the American Home." Absent were the distillers as brewers talked of disassociating beer and hard liquor as much as possible, a maneuver to help their cause in the event of Prohibition's return...