Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made his pile. At 72 he still had plenty, but felt that he was "going nuts from not doing anything." So last week he gave a heave and a shove, and out on a Philadelphia stage waddled his revived Beef Trust, once the prime ribs of burlesque. The current show, Watson claims, is an exact duplicate, gags and all, of the old-time one. But in 1898 top weight for burlesque beauties was 180 pounds; today all Beef-Trusters weigh 200 or more. The Trust got its name during a Chicago stockyards investigation, trouped for 25 years, laid...
...then fired a fourth time, producing a highly glazed, virtually indestructible mural. This was never done before because no way had been found of retaining colors through firing with anything but approximate fidelity. Of 13 selected designs and sample panels in this medium displayed in last week's show, two vivid abstractions by Balcolm Greene and Eugene Morley and a panel of four decidedly white-collar gentlemen by Elizabeth Oldswed showed best its wide range of possibilities...
...been led to wonder how the New York World's Fair, like the Chicago Fair before it, has managed to ignore Architect Wright. Last week in the New Yorker Critic Lewis Mumford spoke out on this point in a review of Weight's latest work. "These . . . houses show Frank Lloyd Wright at the top of his powers, undoubtedly the world's greatest living architect, a man who can dance circles around any of his contemporaries," said Mr. Mumford. "Architecturally . . . the chief claim of the World's Fair on the attention of posterity will be the preposterous...
Cinema theatres that show double features make more money than single-feature theatres. To the motion picture industry that fact is clear indication that double features are what the public wants. But anybody who has ever eaten too much candy knows that what the public wants and what it ought to get may be two different things. Last week in two important cinema centres the double feature was getting a thorough going over, to determine 1) whether the public really prefers the double bill, and 2) whether its eyes are not bigger than its stomach...
...patrons (mostly Negroes) of Philadelphia's Nixon Grand Theatre, Manager Si Cohen last week was preparing a rare treat. During the run of Damaged Goods, a photoplay dealing with the ravages of venereal disease, he planned to give on the stage at each evening show one free Wassermann test. To 100 lucky coupon holders, less exploitational Wassermanns were to be available daily at nearby clinics...