Word: rialto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roundup. In London, when things began to get out of hand at the regular showings of wild west movies, Manager Ross Hancock of the Rialto Theater sternly ruled that henceforth all children must check their cap pistols and knives at the box office...
Crossed Fingers. There were some drawbacks to the fine weather. German floodwaters had put the Neckar, Weser and Ruhr canals out of business and closed the Rhine's Düsseldorf bridge. In Venice, the Adriatic had risen to cover St. Mark's Square and the Rialto. Torrential rains and melting snow in the mountains of France had sent Nancy, Epinal and Metz their worst floods in more than a century. In the Vosges 33 bridges were washed out. And with a month of winter still to come, there was always the chance of late frosts that might...
Salanio: Now, what news on the Rialto...
...stage direction of the entire cast and his perfect timing, are testimony to his years in the trade. His voice, which carries the richest Brooklyn accent outside of Jersey City, has a sandpaper timbre that was once a familiar echo from the old Palace in New York to the Rialto Burlesque in Chicago...
...also a prudent man, Dean Bonilla immediately hightailed it for the safety of the Mexican Consulate. When he emerged, on the Government's guarantee of security, a member of the secret police clubbed him with a steel riding crop as he strode into Ciudad Trujillo's Rialto Theater. He would probably have been shot had not his wife thrown herself in front of him as a shield. Bonilla got back to the consulate...