Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historic Euston Station in London the London Midland and Scottish Railway has been celebrating its 100th anniversary. But the life of the party has not been punctilious Chairman Josiah Charles, Earon Stamp of Shortlands, G.C.B., G.B.E., K.B.E., C.B.E., nor the still-puffing 100-year-old locomotive Lion. It has been a pursy, 63-year-old Welshman, Traveling Ticket Collector Albert Gwilliams...
...kind-hearted constable (Irvin S. Cobb). Finding confusion in the affairs of the town newspaper run by Martha Allen (Fay Bainter), he ends it by putting things right between Judy (Jean Parker) and her hotheaded boy friend (John Beal), unmasking the town crook (Lyle Talbot) and building a radio station. Principal cinema attribute of the late Will Rogers was to make it seem that Right not only triumphed on all occasions but that it did so without working up a perspiration. Strict adherence to the Rogers formula gives The Arkansas Traveler, first picture in which Burns has appeared...
This Thursday (10 p.m. EST), again from CBS's Workshop, Poet MacLeish speaks to half-poet ears through another verse play, Air Raid. The station announcement is followed at once by the studio director's voice addressing...
...station then gets through for a spot news broadcast from an old European border town. The announcer is stationed on a tenement roof and as he waits and fears for the enemy planes to come over, his microphone picks up the incongruous, commonplace sounds and voices of women chattering, of children playing. The 1930s have brought war to the kitchen, casualties to the bedroom floor. Air Raid reflects this horror unforgettably. Sounding like the voice in a newsreel from Madrid, Barcelona, Shanghai, Nanking, Poet Mac-Leish's tensed announcer fills in the waiting time by remarking...
...National Broadcasting System with announcer Bill stern (who rendered last year's Navy and Yale games) will carry the game over Boston Station...