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Word: ado (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a year of filming and two weeks of advertising, Ivy Films has premiered Gold Coasting. Although the movie lacks the professional polish of most Hollywood productions, it is more cleverly written and in spots more amusing than either of Ivy's earlier films, Much Ado About Studying, and Touch of the Times...

Author: By Byron R. Wien, | Title: Gold Coasting | 3/20/1953 | See Source »

...Much Ado About Nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Plays In Manhattan, may 12, 1952 | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...Rosy" Rosenbach has taken everything that came in sight. He bought all four folios of the collected plays published between 1623 and 1685. He paid close to $75,000 for a splendid, mint-condition copy of the First Folio, and $21,000 for a first edition (1600) of Much Ado About Nothing. His Troilus and Cressida, dated 1609, is the only known uncut copy of any play published while Shakespeare was still alive. He picked up 68 of the 250 rare Shakespeare quartos known to be in existence, and one of the twelve first edition sonnets published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Shakespeare | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

February, once a word of ill-omen, should be an adjective of gloom, just as Shakespeare once used it, in Much Ado About Nothing: "Why, what's the matter that you have such a February face, so full of frost, of storm, of cloudiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rescue for Lost Words | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

With the main feature, Ivy will show its latest production "Much Ado About Studying." It will also show a sequence from "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" with W. C. Fields and a color movie about Paris...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Films Will Show Risque Lamarr Film | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

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