Word: tabloidal
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...first time, the 'tabloid' ballet called "Tiger Lily" stuck out in my mind as being particularly good, but the other night it seemed more like the usual type of jazz-ballet which is part of every Broadway show these days. It is certainly one of the most interesting, and dramatic in its narrative content, but Valerie Bettis, its star dancer, does much better work in the less-spectacular "Haunted Heart" dance...
...awaited word that it had increased the newsprint ration, and Fleet Street went forth to battle for circulation. Last week, as the gains and casualties were totted up after a month of heavy fighting, the London Daily Mirror claimed victory. By passing Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, the tabloid Mirror had become the world's biggest daily. In January its circulation had jumped 487,000, to 4,187,403. Commented the sound, small (circ. 42,000) weekly London Economist: "The success of the Daily Mirror is a sorry reflection upon a democracy, sometimes called educated, which prefers...
...Delancy of obtaining the name and address of an indentured inmate from the Commissioner's office, and attempting to interview and photograph her under false pretenses. It was an interesting instance of the American' journalistic methods, and for a lot of people, it made the odor of the Hearst tabloid's earlier effort at "exposes" with the Dwyer report more pungent...
...afternoon last week, newsmen on the New York Star were called to a hastily planned staff meeting. They knew that things had been going badly for the tabloid; as they filed into the fifth-floor advertising office they feared the worst. Dapper little Publisher Bartley C. Crum, looking worn and grim, climbed atop a desk...
...play called "The Big Knife." With it, he takes some vicious slashes at the guts of his former paymasters. He says nothing new, but he has not lost his touch in saying it in a startling way. Every Odets line has the impact, and sometimes the serewiness, of a tabloid headline. Perhaps his characters aren't real. Perhaps they are. Clifford Odets is real. He is the star of the show...