Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Town Meeting (Thurs. 9:30 p. m. NBC-Blue). Lecturer Edward Tomlinson, Author Major George Fielding Eliot (The Ramparts We Watch), Professor Charles G. Fenwick discuss "How Can the American Nations Cooperate for World Peace...
...Hanson's theory was a simple reductio ad absurdum with which neither publishers, Guild nor common practice agree. The Act sets 44 hours as the maximum work week, requires overtime payment at one and one-half times the regular salary rate. But out-of-town assignments are part of the normal duties of many a reporter, and while some Guild contracts require twelve hours' pay for each day away from home, any newshawk who tried to collect 24 hours on the same basis would soon be laughed...
This super jam-session was designed not primarily for its small U. S. audience but for English swing fans who heard it over an exclusive BBC broadcast. King of Swing Benny Goodman was conspicuously absent. He was at Manhattan's Town Hall playing with the sedate Budapest String Quartet in an unswung version of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Major. Chamber-music alligators found Goodman's classical tooting almost in the groove...
...Sheep Run (by Raymond Knight) tells of a sentimental Broadway columnist who goes back, after 25 years, to the home town he is always ballyhooing in print. Both he and the audience are very much let down...
...none they panned became a hit. But this season the public has been reversing critics' decisions right & left. In spite of critical praise, Missouri Legend slowly sickened and died. In spite of criticules, Hellzapoppin, consistently puffed by Walter Winchell, quickly rallied, jumped out of bed and took the town. And with qualified reviews, Knickerbocker Holiday has become a success, Kiss the Boys Goodbye a smash...