Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Experimenting on its own hook last week, KECA inaugurated a program called Encore Theatre, presenting the same show three times running each week to accommodate first-night absentees and those who might like to hear a program a second or third time...
...Mental instability seems to be influenced by the instability of the weather. . . . With the pressure falling and the temperature rising we are afflicted with a feeling of futility." Statistics of cities lying in stormy areas, such as Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, show that most suicides occur during periods of low barometric pressure...
...Helen Menken, oldtime Playwright Zoë Akins. To make it live on the screen, Warner Bros, teamed their pop-eyed Bernhardt, Bette Davis, with an equally fiery filly from off the home lot, honey-haired Miriam Hopkins. The result flounces its skirts a little more boldly than the stage show but, like it, is hardly more than the sum total of two good, sometimes brilliant, performances...
...dapper young Negro minstrel-show man named James A. Bland penned these words, wrote a tune to go with them, and launched one of the most perennially popular of U. S. songs. Carry Me Back to Old Virginny was sung so long & loud that 63 years later the Virginia Conservation Commission wanted it made Virginia's official State anthem. Few singers of the song knew or cared who wrote it. If the question ever came up, someone usually said it was one of famed U. S. Songwriter Stephen Foster's (Swanee River, Oh! Susanna! etc.). Fame never caught...
Since then auto production has gone down a smooth grade to the late summer valley where the industry will change to its 1940 production models. Impatient for the next rise, the industry set the New York automobile show, which officially opens the 1940 model year, to begin October 15, earlier than ever before. But even this did not satisfy the impatience of motormakers to get the fall selling season started...