Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McGee, president of the Laborers District Council, were actually racketeers who used their labor affiliation to screen a series of more or less dignified burglaries. Prosecutor Cullitan did not have much luck. When two plain-clothes men were assigned to follow them, Messrs. Campbell & McGee donned frock coats and silk hats, hired an accordion player, a saxophonist and two cars, had the band play Me and My Shadow while they paraded through the streets trailed by the humiliated detectives. Last autumn the tide turned. About the time Mr. McGee was being literally thrown out of his union job, Cleveland...
...children next door. One thing he refused to do, however: sleep in a blanketed bed. One night last fortnight he slept outdoors in a storm, three days later died of pneumonia. Paramount planned (but failed) to send a delegation of famed actors to watch Jiggs buried in his silk-lined coffin. A Christian Science funeral service was read at his grave...
...this after the first ten minutes and does nothing from then on but sing "In The Still of the Night" and murmer "I love you" in sort of a weak whisper. Eleanor Powell is well cast, because she is also unable to act. She appears in those long black silk stockings, does a few unoriginal dance numbers and lets it go at that. It is left to Frank Morgan and a light-footed little man named Ray Bolger to give the picture its few redeeming features, but they are not enough. And to make matters worse, "Borrowing Trouble," another saga...
...piastres ($257,000), half of the royal dowry (the other half to be paid in case of divorce). The father then reached out his right hand thumb upright to King Farouk, who pressed his own right thumb against it while the Sheik El Maraghi threw a green silk cloth over both hands. Intoned the bride's father...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Com-pany never considered Elektra a best seller. Yet when the opera was revived last week at the Met, a capacity audience, including silk hats and standees, gave it the lustiest ovation heard there in several seasons. Principal object of their applause: a dark, hefty Hungarian soprano. Rose Pauly. who heaved and panted through 15 curtain calls after her Metropolitan debut in the title role. Other objects : the sinister, pasty-faced Klytemnestra of Kerstin Thorborg; the brilliant conducting of Artur Bodanzky. Pauly, whose last year's appearance in a concert version of Elektra under...