Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When New York City's division of the WPA Federal Theatre Project, with three major shows and a circus playing to capacity, continued to show comparatively little money in its till, WPA's sleuths went to work. Last week they announced a shortage of $600 in one theatre, $300 in another. The investigators suspected that much more money had been pilfered by ticket takers and sellers who connived to sell the same tickets more than once, thus avoid discrepancies in their records. Shocked, WPA decided henceforth to have periodical audits...
Sheriff Guy Joiner of Boss Crump's Shelby County made a face. "Should these so-called State police show up in this county carrying pistols," said he, "I'll put every one of 'em in jail...
Electrons make impressions on photographic emulsions just as light particles do. Using a magnification factor of 20,400, the Siemens & Halske scientists obtained pictures of the pus germ, Staphylococcus aureus, as big as pennies. In photographs with ordinary high-power microscopes, such germs show up pinhead-size...
Famed Burlesque Producer Harold Minsky planned a burlesque show of midgets. After looking over a crowd of job applicants in his Manhattan office, he decided to call it off. Said he: "Too gruesome...
...across from the Buffalo Bill Bar, stands the Cody Theatre. Mostly, the Cody sticks to single features. But last fortnight it went on a tear. "Can You Take It?" the theatre's advertisement in the Cody Enterprise inquired. It then listed Saturday's bill. "Seven features, no show twice," starting at 2:30 p.m., ending at 10:40. Folks came from all over Park County, at the theatre's invitation brought their lunches, stuck around till closing time...