Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Truckline's producers, Harold Clurman and Elia Kazan, tore into the critics. In an angry New York Times ad they announced they would close Truckline this week, but not "without saying a few things that are on our minds." Sample...
Manhattan's huge Gimbels department store had big news and bought big ads to tell it: GIMBELS HAS NYLONS. Gimbels had 26,000 pairs-a tantalizing drop in the bucket in the face of the public's raging thirst. So, said Gimbels' ad: "Don't think we want to run this advertisement. . . . Come if you must. [But] we've taken this large space to point out how uncomfortable you will...
Lady Astor, drawing newshawks as a honeypot draws flies, was still ad-libbing for publication, three weeks after she landed in the U.S. Her advice to U.S. Anglophobes: "You had better get on your knees and thank God for Great Britain." Her advice to occupation authorities: "I would send a Salvation Army to Europe with Bibles. ..." Lady Astor on the sexes: "Women have more moral courage than men. . . . We didn't make this world." On the future of the male: "I think you ought to have a rest, really...
...evening at a Hollywood party, Songwriter Frank Loesser (Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition) saw Burrows at the piano, ad-libbing caustic caricatures of prominent guests and singing parodies of popular songs. After that evening, due to Loesser's ballyhooing, Abe had little time for work. He was invited to more parties than he could attend. As soon as he arrived, he would be plied with drinks ("I think drinking is only good if done to excess," he says) and virtually chained to the piano for the four hours or so it takes to go through his repertory...
...best wartime program in radio was not heard by U.S. civilians. Called Command Performance (TIME, March 8,1943), it brought together each week the big names in show business. When servicemen overseas requested a sigh from Carole Landis or an ad-lib quarrel between Jack Benny and Fred Allen, they got it. Such high-priced talent, donated as a war service, could not possibly be financed by commercial radio. But last week an economy-size version called Request Performance was well on its way to stardom...