Word: showings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that spread over the heart of old Deerfield. Most of his old New England colleagues (Horace Taft of Taft, Perry of Exeter, Claude Fuess of Andover, Endicott Peabody of Grotonj are dead or retired. Frank Boyden is the last of a generation of great headmasters-a man who cannot show a visitor to Deerfield an empty classroom without shaking his head. "You should see it full of boys," he says. "It's not right without boys...
Preliminary examination (the distribution of body hair, etc.) indicated that Joan was primarily male, but an operation might show that the doctors and Joan could choose. Said Joan: "I'd rather...
...operation was successful. There is every reason to believe that "John" (as the doctors called him after the operation) can have normal sex relations. Later tests on the fertility of the sperm will show whether it is possible for him to become a father...
Outside the theater, a loudspeaker endlessly blared There's No Business Like Show Business while cops rode herd on the crowd. Inside, with standees five deep, a frankly sentimental audience roared welcome to the ghost. Vaudeville had come back to its greatest and last stand, Manhattan's Palace Theater...
...come to stay? With the movie box office sagging, the RKO theater chain -parent of the Palace-fervently hoped so. The movies had done their share to kill off vaudeville, but now the exhumed variety show might be just what worried movie exhibitors needed. If the Palace's new "8 Acts 8" (featured on a bill with a cinematic weak sister called Canadian Pacific) could make the grade at the box office, the RKO chain stood ready to throw vaudeville into its movie houses around the U.S., and other chains might follow suit...