Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then the firecrackers land in F. D. R.'s hair, far oftener in the faces of Republicans and anti-New Dealers. The tycoons take their best beating in Sing Ho for Private Enterprise, where one of them groans he is reduced to eating domestic caviar. Between times the show, whose sprightly cast includes Hiram Sherman, Philip Loeb, Rex Ingram, Joey Faye, sings out the news about LaGuardia, European diplomats, liberals, Hollywood, café society...
...Reinhardt (Wed. 9:30 p. m., CBS). The new Texaco hour, on which No. 1 exiled impresario presents his dramatic workshop on his first U. S.-sponsored program. Star: Cinemactress Bette Davis. Variety show performers: Cinemactress Una Merkel, Cinemactors Adolphe Menjou, Charles Ruggles, Soprano Jane Froman, Tenor Kenny Baker, David Broekman's orchestra...
Room Service (RKO) is John Murray's and Allen Boretz's outrageously funny farce about the exigencies of show business on a shoe string, redesigned as a vehicle for Harpo, Groucho and Chico Marx. Groucho is Producer Gordon Miller, whose schemes for wheedling board & lodging out of a weak-spined hotel manager to whom he already owes a small fortune are hideously complicated by the arrival of an irascible hotel supervisor (Donald McBride), then of the bewildered young author whose play he hopes to produce. Harpo and Chico are Miller's equally impecunious assistants. The tumultuous efforts...
Straight, Place and Show (Twentieth Century-Fox) exhibits the Ritz Brothers up to their customary tricks: jabbering at each other in unintelligible shouts or whispers, making faces, screeching into telephones, executing Russian dances in cowboy costumes, worrying, ringing bells, riding horseback forward and backward, crawling on all fours and swinging from the limbs of trees. Naturally, in a picture which contains the Ritzes, there is very little room left for a story. In Straight, Place and Show, Damon Runyon's and Irving Caesar's fairly conventional fable about a young man (Richard Arlen), a young girl (Phyllis Brooks...
...Wilson invented the cloud chamber. This device makes visible the fantastically rapid paths, straight, curved, or broken, of electrons and other subatomic particles. The cloud chamber contains water vapor or other fluid vapor which, suddenly expanded by a piston, condenses along the particle paths in fog droplets that show up in photographs as white streaks...