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Once a week, as a respite from soap operas, NBC offers U. S. womankind a program known as Luncheon at the Waldorf. Broadcast from the Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the show is aimed at matrons with better-than-average bankrolls, is as sedulously shallow as a...
When Meditations in Wall Street appeared early last month, it induced a fair amount of speculation about the identity of the anonymous author. In his fussily graceful preface, Albert Jay Nock implied not only that Mr. "A. B." is dead but that he is embalmed in more than a few...
Besides summarizing hundreds of plays and spotting hundreds of players and playwrights, the book touches such stray topics as theatrical cemeteries, the 36 Dramatic Situations, explains a mass of technical terms and theatre lingo. Experts have written its longer articles: Raymond Massey on Acting, John Mason Brown on Criticism, Lucius...
The play is rich in more than one kind of name-calling. Before the wheelchair genuflect the world's great. "Gertrude Stein" phones from Paris. "Admiral Byrd" sends penguins, "William Beebe" an octopus. "Harpo Marx" arrives for a cyclonic visit. "Noel Coward" whizzes by, stopping long enough to play...
Informed that a spy was taking pictures of the plant, Watertown, Mass, police sped to the U. S. Army's Watertown Arsenal. There beside the railroad tracks, Graflex in hand, was Lucius Beebe, who elaborately explained that he was waiting for Boston & Albany's 601 to come by...