Word: blende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy with literary references, the play started out merely as a blend of Rand McNally with the Five Foot Shelf. But The Grand Tour was easier to take with no plot at all than with the one it acquired. It closed after eight performances, an example of what happens when an established playwright won't face the fact that he has nothing...
Hugh Amory's "Orpheus" almost reached the necessary blend between good poetry and good theatre. This was due mainly to the concessions Amory made to the latter. The story is set in modern Boston, which perhaps adds to its credulity. A young man, spoken somewhat inaudibley by Amory over a loudspeaker, rejects society's values and affirms that the only truth is found within oneself. He tries to force his personal viewpoint on society as the absolute, being too much a moral coward to live alone with his idea. He is finally killed by a thug who wants...
...Phoenicia, N.Y., State Game Protector Henry Bernstein reported that red, the traditional distinguishing mark of hunters, is no longer of much help; too many hunters are colorblind. Elsewhere, experienced hands dressed so as to blend with the background, figuring that they would then have as much chance of survival as a deer...
...they do it? The lure, according to "Saturday's Hero," is a certain peculiar blend of cash, glory, and education. Heroes at Jackson U. do get paid, just enough to make amateurs in the audience restless, but it's obvious that they are being had. An underpriced, unreflective lot who do their jobs without self-dramatization, the players earn considerable respect and sympathy in the course of the picture, and the football scenes are authentic and very exciting. But always before the gridiron can begin to assume the romance or tragedy of, say, a bull-ring, the camera turns...
...voices of Holly Harris and Robert Wright blend perfectly in songs like "Wunderbar" and "So in Love," while Miss Harris shows her versatility by convincingly tearing up the stage in "I Hate Men." Aided by a group of very pretty girls, Frank Derbas is a pleasure to watch as he dances the dual roles of Bill Calhoun and Lucentio. Hank Henry and Sparky Kaye put just the right touch of burlesque into the production with their "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." The show-stopper, however, it s a modern jazz song-and-dance number, "It's Too Darn...