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...behold, the reader finds not just an iron-on on page 7 but a WRKO advertisement that comes with it. The iron-on is really an ad for WRKO...
...mildly hallucinatory to attend the Academy Awards for the first time. One flies 3,000 miles to behold the real thing, only to wander onto the set of a long and shapeless parody of the Johnny Carson Show: all has been pre-empted by television, redesigned in terms of the 19-in. screen. The rituals of former years have gone, or at least become so attenuated as to be barely recognizable. In the old days (one remembers from childhood newsreels) the stars used to come out, as they should, at night. Their exits from the black limos would...
...first revival of Booth Tarkington's Clarence since it opened with Alfred Lunt in the title role in 1919 is a class-conscious comedy and a delight to behold. The hero, Clarence )Stephen Keep), is a mysterious World War I veteran who applies to the Wheeler family for a job. The Wheelers-stuffy father, silly mother, bratty daughter, son thrown out of Princeton-take him on and find him a paragon of piano tuning, plumbing and wistfully disarming charm. Keep is a perfect stand-in for a young Jimmy Stewart. As Clarence, he woos and wins the governess (Marian...
...slept and dreamt That life was joy I awoke and saw That life was duty I acted and behold Duty...
...Hollywood from Kansas with little more than cornsilk blonde hair and with legs, so the expression goes, that went all the way down to the floor. Shortly thereafter she was a Sunday supplement cover girl possessed of "a dewy freshness that is a blessing to behold." But Shirley was also a natural actress before cameras. Before long she had earned two Academy Award nominations (for Sweet Bird of Youth and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs...