Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gold was silver, never gilded tin...
Walter Huston is always a likable and skillful actor, and Apple of His Eye is a harmless enough little play-as rural and homey, at its best, as an old, dented tin dipper. But its shy and anxious courtship makes a long and languid evening. Farmer Stover shows twice the indecision of Hamlet without any of the excitement. The apple of his eye is a decent, agreeable girl but singularly unobservant. And the worried relatives, gabby neighbors and drawling farm help that punctuate-and protract-the evening are all stock-comedy figures...
...make the public laugh-Danny Kaye, Groucho Marx, Fred Allen, Jack Benny-split their sides laughing when Abe performs. Outside a little circle of Hollywood and Manhattan partygoers, few know the 35-year-old, balding, blinking radio writer whose hobby is poking fun at Tin Pan Alley. But last week, Abe agreed that his stuff was too good to keep. He began a $3,000-a-week job writing a new CBS comedy show (Holiday & Co.) on which he will air some of his songs. He has also teamed up with Publisher Bennett (Try and Stop Me) Cerf...
Voice of the Layman. No artist, scientist or professor is dark, energetic David Silberman, born 49 years ago on Manhattan's teeming lower East Side. David Silberman is a man with a flair for developing machinery. President of the Cap-Tin Development Corp., he employs 75 to 100 people and makes about $1,000,000 worth of zippers per year in 10,000 square feet of space at 578 Broadway...
...know," he snapped, "that Chevrolet salesmen take prospects over to a Ford salesroom and slam a car door. When it sounds like this they just say 'see, tin,' then take them back and sell them a Chevrolet...