Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seeking publicity for their forthcoming production of that aged melodrama, The Drunkard, four University of Oklahoma boys staggered down the aisle of an Oklahoma City church waving a whiskey bottle, threw a State W. C. T. U. convention into an uproar. Amid screaming and fainting women, police arrived and dragged the drunks off to jail. There, when.it transpired that the whiskey was coffee, the jag a joke, the four students were let off. Said one of them: ''It was the biggest act of my career, and before the most unsympathetic audience...
Mars Attacks the World (Universal). Abbreviated version of last year's serial Flash Gordon, based on the comic strip and featuring Larry ("Buster") Crabbe, re-released to take advantage of the uproar about Actor Orson Welles's War of the Worlds broadcast last fortnight...
Danton's Death (by George Büchner; produced by the Mercury Theatre). Mars Director Orson Welles having blasted the U. S. into an uproar over the radio, Mercury Director Orson Welles turned last week to the peace & quiet of the French Revolution...
...agreed that it split their eardrums, few admitted that it split their sides. One of the few was Critic Walter Winchell. Winchell razzed his fellow critics, claimed that seven out of eight had also "laughed & laughed & laughed" but were ashamed to admit it in print next day. In the uproar which followed, three-ring Critic George Jean Nathan (Esquire, Newsweek, Scribner's) backed up Winchell, called Hellzapoppin "funnier than the Pulitzer Prize"; Critic John Anderson (N. Y. Journal & American} refused to budge an inch; wisecrackers in general suggested that Winchell must have bought in on the show...
...from the deck of its catapult ship, the Friesenland, skittered across to the Azores just after its colleague, the Nordwind, had skittered from the Azores to Port Washington, Long Island. Howard Hughes and Douglas Corrigan having completed (TIME, July 25) their spectacular flights with a maximum of uproar, the commercial airlines of three nations were quietly getting down to the business of flying the Atlantic. The New York World-Telegram, one day when no transatlantic plane was in the air, printed a facetious front-page headline: U. S. VIRTUALLY CUT OFF FROM EUROPE...