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Wildberg's productions include such noted hits as "Porgy and Bess" and "Anna Lucasta." A pioneer in the "eighth lively art," he predicts that "the very immediate future will see a boom in television which will make the sudden expansion of motion pictures and radio in the late 1920's seem like a mere echo...
...first Elizabeth had ridden high on the surging tide of the Renaissance to guide England to its golden age of literature and discovery. The beachheads of the future Empire were won by Bess's indomitable sea hawks, "singeing the Spanish King's beard" in continental harbors and on the Spanish Main. Even Queen Anne, lonely, dullwitted, and forever conniving with her disreputable friend Sarah Churchill, had labeled an age with her name and marked some imperial milestones. After Anne, England's next Queen was a demure little German Princess of 18, who stepped out of a life...
...House chamber was jammed. Representatives were in the rear, then the Senators, the diplomatic corps, the Cabinet (eight present). In the gallery, Bess Truman, in dark coat and brown furs, had a front-row seat. Among the Democratic Representatives, a little girl grew bored with history and squirmed on her father...
...Trumans wanted to spend Christmas at home-and home was Independence, Mo. Bess and daughter Margaret had already left for Missouri; the President could hardly wait to fly there on the morning of the 25th...
...with an air of dithery, appreciative interest that soon has most guests babbling as if they had known her for years. Once she had Jimmy Durante telling such pitiable stories about his youth that, before the program's end, both were sobbing. Last week she interviewed Gallant Bess, The Talking Horse (see cut), who made horse-faces at the mike-and whispered.* The only other participant in these scenes is Mary Margaret's announcer-a 37-year-old Princeton graduate named Vincent Connolly, whom she has been known to buss maternally after the show...