Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tunes which used to lift and carry their pictures along. Nevertheless, what is left makes much better entertainment than most cinemusicals. Except for a few slow spots, e.g., a flat-footed Scottish number in kilts and some noisy, slashing attacks on a concert grand by Pianist Oscar Levant, the show moves along at a lively clip...
More serious Frenchmen also had their show last week. They flocked to view and sample the fat flitches of bacon, succulent sausages and juicy sides of pork on display at Paris' traditional Ham Fair, reopened for the first time since the war. One epicure, tasting an exhibit (below), demonstrated that there were at least some people left in the world who appreciated the importance of the finer things in life-the proper blending of spices and garlic in a sausage, for example...
Once upon a time there was a very good radio show. It had a sponsor. He was satisfied with the whole affiair and everyone lived happily ever after. This little tale is completely apocryphal. If you don't believe me ask a radio comedian name Henry Morgan. He'll tell...
This is until recently. At present, one of the few comedians who doesn't have to steal Morgan's jokes is allegedly paying for them. The Henry Morgan show, a half hour of sporadic Sunday night drollery is sponsored by the Fred Allen show, another half hour of the same sort of thing. The combined shows run from eight to nine...
...Lisa Kirk is the only variety show soubbrette I ever heard who realizes that the vocal chords and not the nasal passages are the proper origins for sounds emanating from female vocalists. If thirty entertaining minutes out of a whole week's effort can be interpreted as a good sign, there still may be hope for radio...