Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon, millions of U.S. youngsters tune in a radio program that begins: "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive. . . . It's Superman!" Last week, radio row was still chuckling over Clayton ("Bud") Collyer's dilemma. Like many another commuter, the 37-year-old radio actor who plays Superman had been stuck in Manhattan by the rail strike...
...Welles from Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Mr. Welles) is Orson Welles with his foot on the loud pedal-which is roughly the equivalent of a lunatic asylum at the height of an electrical storm. Producer-Adapter-Actor-Magician Welles has blown up Jules Verne's famous yarn into a mammoth burlesque whose 34 scenes spill over the stage into the aisles and, when that won't do, resort to movie shots...
...Critic is frequently amusing but fatally long. The Old Vic gave it as bright a production as Broadway is likely to see, and tossed in perhaps the most amazing quick-change that Broadway has ever seen. Half an hour after he had vanished as Oedipus, with blinded, bleeding eyes. Actor Olivier turned up once more to rattle gaily and delightfully as that accomplished chatterbox, Mr. Puff...
Variety doped it as a white elephant, for which there are no stables on Broadway. But it was coming this week, anyway-a huge (36 scenes, nine carloads of props) staging of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days. Producer-Director-Actor-Magician Orson Welles would not be in the Broadway cast, though it had taken all of him to keep the show moving on the road...
Later, when a cowpoke quaffed a "prairie pickup" ("straight formaldehyde with a black widder spider ridin' the olive"), his crepe whiskers fell off. Ad-libbed Actor Welles: "Mighty pow'ful stuff, that likker. Burns the whiskers right off'n a man's face...