Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actor Gardiner last year conquered Broadway by imitating-with a few simple but compelling gestures, an appropriate word or sound and the expression of his amazingly mobile face-such improbable objects as a French train, a dirigible, ugly wall paper. To these sensitively communicated ideographs, Mimic Gardiner has now added a lighthouse (by revolving his body and then suddenly opening his eyes and mouth very wide and hissing slightly when he faces the audience) and a buoy (by crouching, wobbling drunkenly, looking seasick and giving off a bilious bell sound...
...Diego; KDB, Santa Barbara), just became associated with six smaller ones. The late Don Lee, a successful automobile distributor, bought his first station in 1926, founded the chain in 1928. The system began television experimenting in 1931, now televises nightly over W6XAO, once a week with synchronized sound from KHJ. President of Don Lee Broadcasting System since his father died in 1934 has been Thomas Stewart Lee, 30, a favorite in Hollywood cinema circles and a shrewd manager of Don Lee's auto and radio interests...
...SOUND OF RUNNING FEET-Josephine Lawrence-Stokes...
Victor Luth, a goodhearted, 65-year-old real estate operator, had a painful, recurring dream. "I dream I am hurrying down a street," he told his brother. "No one's ahead of me. But behind me I hear the sound of running feet. ... I begin to be afraid. I start to walk faster. . . . When I reach the corner, I find the street still stretches before me, deserted, straight. I keep going at top speed. . . . The sound of running feet behind me comes nearer and nearer, I know a hand will touch me in a moment-then I wake...
...making unappreciated sacrifices and impossible plans. On the other side the Luth brothers are fanning a feeble flicker of business, trying to keep from taking losses, while their children make foolish marriages, family parasites drain away their incomes. A sentimental and static tale despite this promising dramatic setup, The Sound of Running Feet ends inconclusively with little more than the presentation of the dilemmas of the characters, although when Gregory's union plans fall through he decides to marry Mureth anyway. What Employer Luth's prophetic dream meant, Author Lawrence does not say, lets readers decide for themselves...