Word: halled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Father Malachy's Miracle (adapted by Brian Doherty from Bruce Marshall's novel; produced by Delos Chappell). When devout little Father Malachy (Al Shean), with the help of God (offstage), sent a dance hall whizzing 20 miles through the air, he was not damning dance halls. He was proving to a skeptical Anglican parson (Frank Greene) miracles could still be performed, and he hit on the dance hall only because it was handy. The miracle was a fine success, but the Pope disapproved. "Too showy and new-fangled," said the bishop (St. Clair Bayfield). The dance-hall customers...
Snubbed and misunderstood, Father Malachy realizes that the world is not ready for miracles. The dance hall, which he hoped to convert into a shrine, changes its name to The Miracle Casino, does business by the boat load. On Christmas Eve Malachy kneels among the Casino's drunken customers and performs a second wonder which leaves things pretty much at scratch...
Hurricane (Jon Hall, Dorothy Lamour, Mary Astor, Raymond Massey...
Last week the walls of Manhattan's famed Carnegie Hall rang to the strong strains of Welsh folk-music. Most of the performing Cymry were born in Wales, now live in the U. S. The solemn, intense, long-skulled choristers of Cleveland's Cambrian Male Choir sang ancient Celtic hymns. New York's Welsh Women's Chorus, in scarlet capes and topper-like hats, proved that a language that looks shy on vowels need not sound unmusical...
...paid $6,000,000 for a corner in Manhattan's Times Square, put a shop on it to sell cigarets at a pipsqueak profit per package. Mr. Schulte's great attachment to real estate has not been entirely irrational. Once he bought the Aeolian Hall, then on 42nd Street, and sold it two weeks later for $1,000,000 profit...