Word: showings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says Billy Graham: "I want to do away with everything that is criticized in mass evangelism. We believe it is a spiritual service. We don't believe it is a concert or a show...
...comeback to radio appears to be sticking. It began with an announcing chore in 1945 on Theatre Guild on the Air. Then, two years ago, New York's WNBC signed him up to do Take It Easy, a half-hour (later expanded to 45 minutes) daytime disc-jockey show. His easy microphone manner and his new reliability made him a solid hit with both audience and sponsor. Soon, he picked up another show, the morning Melody Time. Last week one more was added: Inner Sanctum...
...fans), audiences sat enthralled while Princess Aurora was christened, cursed by the wicked fairy, and put into the long sleep from which she is awakened by the prince's kiss. The third-act duet by Fonteyn, the princess, and Helpmann, the prince, never failed to stop the show. In Swan Lake, few fans had ever seen anything so magnificent as Margot (Queen of the Swans) and her flock (the corps de ballet) huddling and quivering in terror before the evil magician...
...instruction film (he got three months in jail), the Pic devoted Page One to stills from the banned movie under the pious headline NOW PARENTS CAN JUDGE FOR THEMSELVES. Last week readers were treated to a leering exclusive, CONFESSIONS OF A FAKE DOCTOR, which the paper printed just to show "the urgent need for [legal] reform...
...report on John Bull's private life (headline: 450 VERY FRANK MEN AND WOMEN). Last summer, when cameramen pursued Princess Margaret (see below) into an Italian grotto and peered into her bedroom, the Pic loudly protested this invasion of her privacy. Naturally, it had to run pictures to show how unprincipled the invasion had been...