Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state. In the mansion lives President Guy Wells of the Georgia State College for Women, where a group of Negro college educators was meeting. They were frightened out of town. Fortnight ago three men were arrested after a Negro's house was shot up, and there was talk around town that night riders had been driving Negro families out of the county. Such terrorism caused Georgia's oldest weekly, the Milledgeville Union Recorder (est. 1819) to raise its voice against the Ku Klux Klan. "It is time people quit winking at law violations," it declared. "This...
Outside the drab yellow walls of the Covent Garden Opera House last week, Londoners stamped their feet in the foot-numbing chill. Some had been waiting six hours for the gallery door to open. Backstage, Choreographer Frederick Ashton, in a skirt and a high wig, rushed around with last-minute instructions. The occasion was the first new full-length, classic-style ballet Western Europe had seen in 50 years...
...bony score that Prokofiev had composed on a Kremlin commission during the war, but he had taken nothing of the Bolshoi Theater's spectacular and even longer ballet. A typical difference: while Ashton has his hero stay close to home, the Russians sent their Prince Charming chasing around the world after the glass slipper's owner so that they could have a whirl at Turkish, Spanish and African dances. Said Ashton: "The trouble with most long ballets is that no matter how good they are, they tend to wear an audience out." His trick: "We start off with...
...Jean Kerr; produced by James Russo, Michael Ellis and Alexander H. Cohen in association with Clarence M. Shapiro) is a cheery little bore that needs more art in its artlessness. It tells of a crotchety parish priest who, tired of having his housekeeper's solemn, scrubbed-looking niece around the rectory, sets about sprucing her up as a means to getting her spliced. In the end, he succeeds in transforming her into such a glamor girl that she gets the very man she wants...
...that RCA was about to bring out a set with a 16-inch metal viewing tube that would give twice as big a picture as the ten-inch tube used in most sets. Emerson and Stromberg-Carlson were expected to follow suit. The reported price for the RCA set: around $500, or $195 less than U.S. Television's slightly smaller (15-inch...