Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show was at its best when Actor Vincent Price (Angel Street) read Saint-Ex's meditation on the Battle of France. ("Victory is a thing of action. . . . But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all, of futility. . . .") First reaction to Flight: favorable. Possible result: other chapters of other books on a new weeknight program...
...Chicago for the past month a model T laugh-getter has been burning up the road at a $17,000-a-week clip, leaving such streamlined models as Blithe Spirit and Angel Street to choke on its dust. Called Good Night Ladies, the show is the late Avery Hopwood's 22-year-old, towel-draped Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath, with hardly a line left that Hopwood would recognize, but with the situations all they were and then some...
...short, stocky Al Rosen, a Hollywood agent who thought the public needed a good old bedroom farce, and dug through dozens of them till he found the one he liked. He hired Playwright Cyrus Wood (Sally, Irene and Mary, Street Singer) to doctor it up, finally found an angel. The show opened in Santa Barbara in February and so outraged that staid community that the city council met. Good Night Ladies thereupon scrammed to San Francisco for a week, clicked, stayed five. When it lit out for Chicago it had already earned back its $6,000 nut, has netted...
DEATH ON THE AISLE-Frances and Richard Lockridge-Lippincott ($2). Mr. & Mrs. North, especially the latter, lend their exasperating assistance to Lieut. Weigand of the New York police in clearing up the murders of a theatrical angel and an actress who knew too much. Good plot, highlighted by Pam North's wacky humor...
...group's financial angel, who lives in the mansion and is married to Surrealist Ernst, is black-haired, husky-voiced Peggy Guggenheim, niece of philanthropic Copper Tycoon Solomon Guggenheim. Peggy Guggenheim, who loves to sport eight-inch earrings and a housecoat made entirely of peach-colored feathers, does no painting herself, but practically supports the group by collecting its pictures, plans next fall to open a Manhattan museum where they can be shown...