Word: awarders
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Editors of the Lampoon apparently stole the bronze statue from the CRIMSON early this week. This morning they presented it to Miss Taylor at Logan Airport, at the same time naming her the actress who has shown the "greatest improvement" as a result of receiving the "Roscoe." The new award was called "the Fabian Fall Award...
Miss Taylor was in Boston for a personal appearance at a Red Cross rally. When she left Logan airport yesterday morning after receiving the best of Fall, she told the Lampoon. "This is very kind of you young men. I'll always treasure this award and remember this affair," she said...
Hollywood's legion of columnists, correspondents and reporters crowded into the Beverly Hills Hotel last week for movie journalism's traditional big night. It was the annual award-to-actors banquet put on by Photoplay, venerable pioneer (founded in 1911) of movie magazines. Master of Ceremonies Ronald Reagan, president of the Screen Actors Guild, rose for his polite remarks about Photoplay, then astounded the journalists with a diatribe against the "irresponsible press" of Hollywood...
Last week Father Keller announced the winners of the 1950 Christopher Awards -five prizes of $5,000 each, for books and movie scripts that are "at the same time entertaining, artistic, and inspirational." The $15,000 first prize in 1949 went to an Episcopalian-Architect George Howe, for his novel, Call It Treason. Of the eight award winners this year only two were Catholic...
...About Eve, Anne Baxter plays an ambitious, ruthless young actress who reaches stardom by knifing various associates, including an aging star played by Bette Davis. Last week, 27-year-old Anne Baxter might almost have been still rehearsing her old script. As the balloting for the Academy Awards was about to start, Anne phoned Eve's Producer Darryl Zanuck, asked his backing in going after the Best Actress Award instead of the lesser and easier-to-get Supporting Actress Award. Said Zanuck, who has Anne, but not Bette Davis, under contract: "Her argument was that...