Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public still clamors to see her on the screen, but James Daly was altogether too wooden as the young man whose mixed motives of pity and greed turn him into a gigolo and, eventually, a corpse. ABC's U.S. Steel Hour offered another TV version of Henri Bernstein's The Thief (Kraft TV Theater did the same play in 1952), with Paul Lukas, Diana Lynn, Mary Astor and James Deane. An old-school melodrama, The Thief tells of an idealistic young man who takes the responsibility for an older woman's momentary weakness. The play, as well...
Frederick L. Bernstein '55, who headed the refreshment committee for the 1952 Smoker, last night expressed approval of the plan to offer a greater variety of drinks. "There usually is more than enough beer," he said, "and it'll help out down trouble...
...meantime, Correspondent Lester Bernstein was writing and organizing some four weeks of intensive research in a special field of medicine as the basis for a possible future cover story for the Medicine section. Elsewhere in London George Voigt, having checked his usual beat, which is Defense and Foreign Office, was checking up on a show at the British Broadcasting Corp., with an eye cocked toward a future television story...
Shapero: Symphony for Classical Orchestra (Columbia Symphony conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia). A brilliant composer of the younger generation, Massachusetts' Harold Shapero, 34, has an ear for bright sonorities, a gift for formal construction, and a fascination for bygone masterpieces that has caused controversy. This attractive work, completed in 1947, parallels his efforts in Beethoven, Haydn and Stravinsky styles, resembles Prokofiev more than any other model...
...Murrow had another good Person to Person program, with Lillian Gish arguing charmingly but ineptly for a Secretary of Fine Arts to be added to the President's Cabinet, and Robert Q. Lewis surprising few viewers by denying that he is a comedian. On Omnibus, Composer Leonard Bernstein analysed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and showed, with orchestral help, how Beethoven made repeated false starts and fruitless excursions in composing his masterpiece...