Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here's a suggestion for the manager of some theater to try: there are no tickets; there are half a dozen windows, open an hour before the show. You pay your money and walk in, and that's all. Why not ? UPTON SINCLAIR Monrovia, Calif...
Sometimes the hazards are greater. Lucille Ball once had to walk off a Chicago stage when hooligans shouting in the balcony began to get too personal. On his way to make a movie in England, Robert Taylor found two bobby-soxers under his stateroom bed on the Mauretania. As a fledgling of 21, making his first tour, William Holden suffered hotel-room invasions by voracious women. In 1946, at London's first Royal Film Performance, a Hollywood contingent headed by Ray Milland touched off a mob scene that sent three fans to the hospital and 100 to first...
...dead girl's showgirl friend; Alan Ladd and Donna Reed are unsurprisingly mediocre, but no one would go to the movies to see them, anyhow. "Chicago Deadline" is not the sort of picture you'd go out of your way to see; but once inside, you won't walk out, either...
...home, she is the kind of girl of whom one friend says: "She could fill Covent Garden every night in the week for a year, but she could walk through Picadilly Circus with a neon light around her head without one person saying, "There goes Margot Fonteyn.' " She has a flat just a block from Covent Garden, filled with period furniture ("mixed") and porcelain cats, spends much of her free time with her mother, a striking, silver-haired woman whom Margot and her friends have nicknamed "The Black Queen...
...cure for their specific afflictions. What the carefully qualified report did suggest was the exciting possibility that experiments in the direct application of electrical stimuli to the brain or peripheral nerves may one day enable some of the blind to see, the deaf to hear and the lame to walk again-after a fashion, anyway...