Word: shows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tricky illusion act ruined a curtain in The Bronx's remarkable Puerto Rico Theater. It also cost the management dry-cleaning bills for the "blood"-stained clothes of some 20 customers. But it helped boost the week's receipts to $40,000-more than any show but Kiss Me, Kate and As the Girls Go grossed on Broadway last week. The Bronx's big-money playhouse is a magnet for one of New York's lowest-income groups-the growing city-within-a-city of 230,000 Puerto Ricans...
...Captain. Though Trippe is surrounded by crack engineers, and financial and diplomatic experts, he runs Pan Am as a one-man show-and no one ever forgets it. His tight-fisted rule has been shaken more than once, but never broken...
...Return of Rin Tin Tin. It is such a satisfaction to see a movie that has no drinking, no suggestive scenes and dialogue, that I'll take a good clean horse or dog show any time...
...exhibitors judge a film's merits with occasional asides on such local influences as blizzards and basketball games. The opinions have little to do with cinematic art, but they go to show that Hollywood has a hard job trying to please everybody. Samples...
Audience Participation. In Manhattan, Comedian Jack Carter reported that after his weekly television show he received a letter from a dentist: "I would . . . like to call your attention to a dark spot in your upper bicuspid area . . . May I be of service...