Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Consultation fee of John J. Anthony (formerly Lester Kroll, taxi driver) of radio's Original Good-Will Hour was $25, but people who could not afford the fee might arrange to have their troubles aired over the radio. Mrs. Steiner asked Mr. Anthony his qualifications. He said he had "studied all the psychiatrists' work" and claimed that he had advised Vassar College on an Institute of Marital Relations (which Vassar does not have), and that Princeton had asked him to start an "experimental station." Nowhere to Go. Wherever she went, Mrs. Steiner saw people needing and paying...
Rolling Along. In Grants Pass, Ore., a taxi company celebrated the opening of a new office by giving away free rolls of hard-to-get toilet paper...
...guess when Pullman restrictions will be lifted. Others' guesses: 60 to 90 days. Air priorities, tighter now, will continue until airlines get more craft and crews. The shipping squeeze precludes much weekend cruising or transatlantic traveling. More bus equipment is on the way. Toledo to Topeka by taxi is again possible-if the tank stays...
...Cents a Dance (Columbia), like Out of the Night, succeeds at once intersely handling an artificial but by no means dull story, and in making its people and their surroundings true-to-life. The story concerns the efforts, of two taxi-dancers (Jane Frazee, Joan Woodbury) and their boss (John Calvert) to get money out of two soldiers (Jimmy Lloyd, Robert Scott). The charm of the picture is in the redolent staging of scenes in the dance hall, at a jam session, a crap game; and in the fact that all these characters perform as unaffectedly as if they...
Jealousy (Republic) dramatizes neurosis. The neurosis belongs to a refugee writer (Nils Asther). He is somewhat paranoiac, so his wife Janet (Jane Randolph) has to support him by driving a taxi. Her husband becomes jealous of one of her fares, a Dr. Brent (John Loder), and the doctor's handsome colleague, Monica (Karen Morley). About the time Cinemactor Asther stops threatening to commit suicide or murder, he is murdered himself. Who kills him is something of a mystery, but even those who are not much mystified will find other things to interest them in the film...