Word: blackboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much the brightest part of the show. Despite some lively Ralph Beaumont dances, some pleasant Harold Arlen music and some neat touches in Morton Da Costa's direction, Saratoga has all the animation of a tableau and all the narrative interest of something written 50 times on a blackboard...
Divorced. Glenn Ford, 43, cinemactor (Blackboard Jungle-); by Eleanor Powell, 47, dancing screen star of the '30s (Broadway Melody of 1936, 1938, 1940); after 16 years of marriage, one son; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Ellis. As in The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N more than 20 years ago, English is his most beloved enemy, but Waterloo is not in his capricious vocabulary, and as the stars with which he decorates his name on the blackboard testify, his ego is still imperial. He attacks sense and syntax with the same insouciance that originally made him such a verbal charmer. To Hyman Kaplan, the discoverer of the laws of gravity is "Isaac Newman,'' the plural of blouse is "blice'' and the opposite of nightmare...
...durable idealist who teaches the beginners' grade of the American Night Preparatory School for Adults. Parkhill's melting pot simmers with some flavorful characters, though their jokes are unlikely to revive the vanishing art of dialect humor. To class repeaters, including Miss Mitnick. the blushing birddog of blackboard errors. Author Rosten has added some newcomers. There is Mr. Matsoukas. a muttering Greek for whom derivation is the mother of invention (" 'Automobile' is Grik! 'Airplane' is Grik! 'Telephone' is Grik! All, all, all Grik!"). There is Mr. Trabish, whose hero is Paul Revere...
When the 24 members of the play committee met last week in the theater to pick the principals, hundreds of Oberammergau's 4,600 people were gathered around a big blackboard outside, where the results of each secret ballot were chalked...