Word: woo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post-depression history of the U. T. has been comparatively uneventful. Aside from some occasional woo-pitching in the balcony, and the universal gnashing of teeth at any appearance of Dick Powell or Robert Taylor, the management has had little to fret about. Vaudeville has gone and egg-throwing has become a national issue. Even the materialization of Ann Sheridan on the stage of the U. T. has become an unfulfilled memory...
...More Woo. Having reached at least the start of an understanding on trade with the U. S., Argentina also prepared last week to thrash out its problems with Great Britain. Owner of vast Argentine holdings, Great Britain is also Argentina's best single customer, hopes to remain so if for no other reason than to keep excess Argentine goods from Nazi Europe. Last week Britain announced that a diplomatic trade mission would tour the South American countries next month under 74-year-old Marquis Willingdon, former Viceroy of India, onetime cricket champion, reputedly the suavest and most able trouble...
...banner. And in Texas Peter Molyneaux's Texas Weekly declared: "There are millions of Americans who do not think President Roosevelt is indispensable, who believe that the wel fare and security of the United States will be better insured by the election of Mr. Willkie. . . ." The Right to Woo. All of this added up to a large amount of potential Willkie strength in the South, but it did not add up as yet to a single Southern vote for Willkie in the Electoral College. Whether such anti-New Deal sentiment will be converted into Willkie votes depends entirely...
...potential star. However, by a slight mistake in the front office, George Murphy is hired to be Eleanor Powell's male lead in her new show. Then comes trouble. Everything from ambitious amateur comediennes to a continually blotto George Murphy interrupts rehearsals--while Fred Astaire takes time out to woo Miss Powell, who, like Barkis, is willing'. The lines in "Broadway Melody" are clever, and several of the dance routines superb. But it is the work of Fred Astaire which makes this a green-light picture; he is a musical comedy all be himself...
...Germany and Italy to try to woo Turkey away from the Allies...