Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavyweight championship. By the time Joe reached Hollywood, Producer Golder had collected a dusky crew of professionals from downtown Los Angeles, planned an all-Negro story that would more or less parallel the Brown Bomber's shuffling clamber to fame. Taking on a wonderful waxworks-plus-minstrel-show quality from its principal player, Spirit of Youth will certainly not be duplicated for many a moon...
Crime, disease and juvenile delinquency are shown spawning in the squalor of "old-law" tenements,* of which 67,000 still exist in Manhattan. The horror of a cholera epidemic which ravaged the slums in the last century is vividly projected. (Today's scourge: tuberculosis.) Two scenes show the panic when fire sweeps through the tenement's rickety hallways...
...museum not having been built according to the agreement, Philip Brasher drove to Hartford, declared the paintings forfeit to the artist. Few days later he & wife trundled them down to Washington, where this week, in the National Geographic's large bright 16th Street Building, the first complete show of Rex Brasher's work opened...
...whimpering mimicry of the chimpanzee mating call. Ape Josephine first looked startled, then so pleased that Ape George, becoming angry, shouldered his mate from the phone, pulled frantically at the cage's bars. With a sharp cough-like cry, Castang cursed George. George cursed Castang. Castang, with a show of temper, roared a warning that drove both George & Josephine cringing to a corner. The trainer then laughed with giggle-like simian laughter and the conversation closed...
...Night has almost everything else- spies, detectives, a conspiracy hatched after dark in a deserted church; 3 mad philosopher who sees the coming of complete moral darkness over the earth; a blind hero; a section devoted to Boston during the police strike (which appears from this account a bigger show than the French Revolution) ; a mass of characters, largely Irish, drawn about equally from the police and the underworld; returned soldiers, as embittered as they are eloquent; three suicides, a rape, a robbery and a final thundering climax in which a crazy policeman attired in priestly garments shoots...