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Word: showing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steal the show this year, it is a good show Gargantua has stolen. Brilliant with new costumes, electric with man-&-beast action on its three rings and two stages, the 1938 circus has, besides a full deck of routine, such new acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Jungle to Garden | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

They talk of spirit more and show it less...

Author: By Rockwell Hollands, | Title: Hicks and Hillyer Residing in Same House Presents Problem | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

...addition the organizations will bring to Harvard the best foreign films and those of another generation of American movie-makers which are no longer shown in the commercial theatre. A glimpse into the future might show a carefully and intelligently movie-cultured audience of students here imbibing its American Civilization from celluloid documents preserved in the film library founded by the Guild...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FILM OF CULTURE | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

Investigation revealed that the object of the pictures was not to portray the peculiar birds but to photograph the cases in which the birds were enclosed. The pictures were authorized by Duke University so that Duke might have as artistic show cases as has Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUKE UNIVERSITY TO COPY HARVARD EXHIBITION CASES | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

...fare amounts to 75 cents, and the gentleman hands the driver a dollar. He is embarassed to hold out his hand for the return quarter, but he takes it, and the cabbie is disgusted. Away in a cloud of gear-teeth he goes. The old gentleman turns in a show half-circle to the big, grey building, a smile on his face. The unpleasantness is over for today. A shame about that quarter, he mutters, but necessary. He has a better use for it than as a tip. He slips it into his pocket; there is no jingle from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

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