Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greatest Show on Earth (by Vincent Duffey & Irene Alexander; produced by Bonfils & Somnes, Inc.). Playwrights Duffey and Alexander seem unable to decide whether they are satirizing mankind or writing seriously about the anguish of caged beasts. The result is occasionally funny, occasionally mordant, mostly an addled mixture. Partly atoning for the commonplace writing of The Greatest Show on Earth are its ingenious costumes, handsome production, and the acting of Edgar Stehli as Slimy, the serpent. As he slithers among the bears and elephants, hissing in Cockney, inciting Leo the Lion (Anthony Ross) to murder the Keeper, Actor Stehli commits only...
...Jackson had failed to scrape together enough action for three acts. What he had written was a costume play on wordy marital misunderstandings. When the critical votes were counted, there were no thumbs up. After six performances the Marches & Director Cromwell took the hint with rare good humor. Their show closed the next night, but before it did Marwell Productions took to the advertising columns of Manhattan's newspapers with a graceful exit line...
...voice apparatus is largely a metal and fabric tube which has parts corresponding to the larynx, tongue, and palate. He gets recognizable syllables by various arrangements of his hands on the mouthpieces. Air is furnished by a bellows which he operates with his foot. Although he designed it to show, by crude but effective imitation, the crudity of human speech, some U. S. listeners thought they could detect in its manual utterances a trace of British accent...
...decided to take no further action at this time than the writing of this letter in condemnation of the program. However, upon application for renewal of the licenses of the stations carrying this broadcast, the Commission will take under consideration this incident along with all other evidence tending to show whether or not a particular licensee has conducted his station in the public interest...
...prove his claim, Stuart Chase gives a digest of semantic authorities and then shows how meaningless in the light of their studies are some passages from 'such pundits as Plato, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, President Roosevelt, Walter Lippmann, Henry Ford. He even damns an excerpt from his own writings. As his only ''operational test" he asked 100 people, ranging from schoolboys to Senators, what "fascism" meant to them. They all disliked it, but they had 15 different concepts of what they disliked, including that of a housewife who thought it was "a Florida rattlesnake." Popular ideas...