Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lieutenant governor of Washington (state) is a onetime bandleader who still delights in music. While collecting votes last year, Victor Aloysius Meyers impulsively invited a former movie-palace organist, just discharged from the Army, to come to the State Capitol some time and play for the legislature. Organist Phil Raboin eventually showed up in Olympia, was put on the state payroll as a clerk and assigned to soothe ruffled legislative nerves with a daily recital...
...glass end of a huge vacuum tube, even an 8½-by-11-in. picture represents a considerable engineering triumph. But prospects of families crowding to peer at this tiny view have long worried prospective television advertisers, discouraged prospective set owners, stumped designers. Last week in Manhattan. RCA-Victor demonstrated its postwar answer. Operating like movies on the principle of projection, with a reflecting optical system like that used in observatory telescopes and a new high voltage tube only five inches in diameter, the RCA set produced a clear, bright picture...
...Love (by Edward Caulfield; produced by Arthur Beckhard & Victor Hugo-Vidal) concerns a lady scientist and a well-known actor (Lotus Robb and Walter Hampden) who meet through a marriage bureau, hide their identities, spend a trial fortnight in Connecticut...
...week a Coast Guard troupe of 67 enlisted men & women played a four-a-day musical show called Tars and Spars in Vancouver's Beacon Theater. On Sunday the cast, including its bright particular star, Chief Boatswain's Mate Victor Mature,* lunched at the swank Capitano Country Club. Later a new, 85-ft. Canadian Navy tug stood by to take everybody for a joy ride. Chief Mature and most of the troupe pleaded other engagements. Sixteen SPARS and five tars accepted...
Murray's biggest card is his ability to get headliners in the audience to participate. Some of them, such as Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, chime in from down front. Others, such as W. C. Fields, Mickey Rooney, Victor Moore, Edgar Bergen, Dick Powell, Rudy Vallee, take over the stage. Murray exploits his guest stars brilliantly-by not exploiting them at all. They are never given billing, are often not even introduced. As a result, the audience feels it is really getting something extra for its money...