Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glass and limestone facing were used extensively in the planning to avoid giving the buildings "the appearance of large chunks of brick," according to Shepley, Bullfinch, Richardson and Abbott, the architects. The living room of each suite will have a broad floor-to-ceiling heavy glass window, and inside walls of rough pumice-stone...
...guaranteeing anything funny. The play is indeed an anything-goes sort of script, and all too much of it goes awry. Perhaps the producers decided not to fret over the script, thinking that the nub of Drink lay in the staging, in what that master of accelerating insanity, George Abbott, could pipe into a yarn of careening drunkenness. Director Abbott and his downer of Scotch, Tom Poston, constitute the brighter side of the occasion. But Drink to Me Only is not an occasion, is not often very bright...
...drunk two bottles of whisky. After a prosecution doctor testifies that no one could drink that much without passing out, the defense enlists Actor Poston to prove the contrary. And, particularly at the second-bottle stage, Actor Poston shows an amusing gift for exuberant pantomime, as does Director Abbott for moderate pandemonium. But no play can keep from falling on its face just by having the hero continue to do so, and even at its best, even as a jolly intemperance lecture, Drink tends to pall...
...State Department has named George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, as one of the three United States representatives in East-West talks in Geneva Nov. 10 on the prevention of a surprise military attack...
...Yankees (Warner). Hollywood's version of Broadway's long-running (2½ years) marriage of baseball and Beelzebub seems sure to draw more customers than the Los Angeles Dodgers, even though it too requires a screen. In this case the screen is an asset. Co-Directors George Abbott (who did the stage musical) and Stanley Donen have lathered it with offbeat color effects and the kind of all-over-the-lot bounce that on Broadway could only be suggested. As a cinemusical, Yankees manages to steal home by a wide margin...