Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marble-walled Senate caucus room, crystal chandeliers shimmered in the kleig lights last week, and more than 500 spectators jammed together to see the show. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee was beginning hearings on the North Atlantic Treaty and Secretary of State Dean Acheson was the first witness. As photographers flashed and popped, they noted that Acheson's mustache had been clipped down from its usual pukka sahib proportions. Finally, Chairman Tom Connally called a halt to their work with a cracker-barrel dictum. "You can snap," rumbled Connally, "but you can't bulb...
...thirds empty. Soggy onlookers drifted away for hot drinks in nearby cafes. In Rome, a damp crowd sang dispiritedly in the Piazza del Popolo. A newsboy hawked the Communist newspaper: "Here's Unità. If you can't read, stand under it." The Reds' May Day show in Italy, billed in advance as the biggest & best ever, was a sodden fizzle...
...last week, Russian officers and soldiers appeared at three canal locks inside the British sector, and ordered the lock keepers to stop all barges which could not show Russian papers. They based their case on the fact that the barge-licensing office had been in Soviet territory before the East and West sectors set up their own city governments...
People who have seen him in action call him the greatest one-man show this side of Winston Churchill. He has Churchill's sense of being on intimate terms with history. He also has his sense of danger and drama. He wraps himself in thundering generalities; he sometimes sounds, annoyingly, as though he had just received a special briefing from heavenly quarters. But few people come away without the conviction that he is a great...
...great gusto. He enjoys it himself, and certainly last night's audience did. John Rexine plays the old gentleman of Ephesus, Periplectomenus, naturally and well and George Mulhern gives a fine performance as a slave through whose agency the true lovers are reunited and the warrior disgraced. The real show-stopper is Joseph Dallet as a slightly tipsy slave. Brooks Emmons and Dorothes Reynolds do exceedingly well as women who look and act as if they knew what life were all about...