Word: season
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headquarters in the Claypool Hotel have been humming since last winter, in constant touch with the High Commissioner to the Philippines in Manila. That office and Paul McNutt's friends were ready with an efficiently stage-managed homecoming celebration. The timing was just about perfect. Now was the season for political bands, bunting, oratory, ballyhoo. Here was a candidate who could stride upon the national stage like a handsome Ulysses returning from labors abroad to hurl fear and respect into the hearts of Democracy's home-hugging suitors. It mattered not that the welcoming party was synthetic, that...
...February 1937, 145 Piccadilly, a few steps from the main entrance to Hyde Park, has remained closed. Last week it was thrown open to the public with a show of 1,300 "Royal and Historic Treasures" which, to the public at least, constituted the most spectacular exhibition of the season...
...Jack Benny and the Jell-O troupe, NBC. Substitutes, starting this week: the Aldrich Family, a problem household recruited from the Broadway play What a Life and groomed by General Foods on Kate Smith's hour this season...
...Streets of Paris (produced by the Shuberts and Olsen & Johnson). Once Broadway had a summer season when producers trotted out fleecy and filmy girl shows. But with the decline of musicomedy and the growth of the straw-hat theatre, producers took to estivating. Show business decided months ago, however, that, with World's Fair crowds in the offing, this was to be no ordinary summer. The World's Fair began by knocking show business groggy; but by last week, when the first of the summer musicals opened, show business was up on one knee, with a chance...
...afternoon a gay & lyric troupe of 33 took the stage. They were the Wheeling Steelmakers, employes, or relatives of employes, in twelve plants of Wheeling Steel Corp. in the Ohio Valley. The occasion: a weekend outing & spree and a World's Fair broadcast to wind up their second season...