Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South. Some day the North will be sorry they didn't try the same cure for certain things that the Negro knows will cost him his life-the white man is subject to the same law. I would love to meet the author of this article and show him that Southern people are not "crackers," but a Negro is a nigger and always will be one regardless of the Hoovers. No doubt the present President will have more to do with the killing of Negroes in the South, who arc trying to climb the social ladder, than...
...More to show the honor in which the Crown is held, as well as to conform to usage and tradition, they [those who attend the court] decked themselves in accustomed garb. Shall any call them sycophants or mountebanks? Not at all. . . . We do not confuse dependence with courtesy, or underrate the value of continued custom...
Schipa's Show. In Rome last week opened a musical comedy called Principessa Liana, with a love plot about a princess and a troubadour. The author-composer: Tenor Tito Schipa of the Chicago Opera Company. Success: immediate...
Connie's Hot Chocolates is a ramified version of the floor show which is exhibited at a Harlem night club known as Connie's Inn. As in all Negro revues, there are banal scenes on the levee, dingy costumes consisting of overalls with patches on the seats of the pants. Yet for dancing, humor and dynamic showmanship, this is the best venture of its sort since Blackbirds. Best dancing: "Jazz-lips" Richardson (shuffles and sneaks). Best tune: "Ain't Misbehavin...
...their national nickel-weekly Liberty is going to do by way of circulation in the next few years. Always forthright, they made this "estimate" in open comparison to Liberty's staid senior in the nickel-weekly field, The Saturday Evening Post. Always cheerful, their present to themselves was to show, on a graph, the consummation of their dearest ambition?Liberty becoming as large as the Post?at Christmastime in 1934. Thereafter, they guessed, they would have "the largest magazine circulation in the world...