Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finally withdrew A. F. A.'s charter, Stagehand Browne stepped in, gave Whitehead and his rebels an I. A. T. S. E. charter. This maneuver threw the actor-stagehand brawl into the laps of the A. F. of L. executive council. But no satisfactory compromise was forthcoming. To touch off a jurisdictional strike that might shut down Broadway's eleven shows, cripple night clubs and radio stations over the land, close Hollywood studios and possibly (through I. A. T. S. E.'s control of projectionists) every cinemansion in the U. S., only a suitable "incident" was lacking...
...unions (allied in the Associated Actors & Artistes of America). Between them, white-collar A. A. A. A. and no-collar I. A. T. S. E. are in a position to start such a strike as the U. S. entertainment industry has never experienced, and all summer it has been touch-&-go whether their long-simmering jurisdictional disputes could be settled without war. Last week came the crisis all showfolk have been dreading...
...Touché, TIME...
...Touché it is, right in the pit of the mythological dictionary...
...first threadbare effort of 1932, when depression-dumped artists hung their canvases on a fence facing Main Street and hoped for the best, has been gradual but steady. Five years ago, Real-estate Dealer Ropp, who is also a painter in his spare time, thought up a final terrific touch: a series of tableaux reproducing famous paintings and sculpture on a picture-frame stage. This year 44 paintings and ten pieces of sculpture are on the program. Its 54 letter-perfect, 90-second blackouts introduced by singers and dancers, separated by orchestral interludes and culminating in da Vinci...