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...borscht circuit." wrote his first successful play (Once in a Lifetime) at 26 with longtime collaborator George S. Kaufman, went on to turn out a long series of hits including The Man Who Came to Dinner and Lady in the Dark, out of remembered horror of his boyhood poverty disposed of his immense earnings in a manner so lavish that it was said to illustrate "what God would do if he had money," and finally cemented his claim to a place in theatrical legend with Act One, the disarmingly candid autobiography of a man who described his life...
...pigs and took in boarders to see him through high school, and he went on to the university while holding down a minor job as an accountant. After two years, he had to quit school because of ill health and lack of money. Returning to Pampanga, he joined a boyhood friend, handsome Rogelio de la Rosa, in writing, producing and acting in Tagalog operettas patterned after the classic Spanish zarzuelas. Macapagal married his friend's sister (she died during the war, and he is now married to handsome Evangelina Macaraeg, a physician). As for De la Rosa, he went...
...often quite sensitively reconciled the grandeurs of the King James version with the need for a fresh, contemporary tone. After noisily establishing the Romans in Palestine. Scenarist Yordan moves swiftly and synoptically through the Gospels: The Nativity, The Flight into Egypt. The Massacre of the Innocents; Christ's boyhood, baptism and temptation in the desert; Salome's Dance and the murder of John the Baptist; the Sermon on the Mount, the triumphal procession to Jerusalem, the Last Supper, the Agony in the Garden, the Trial before Pilate, the Ascent of Calvary, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection. Unfortunately, many...
...fault in Playwright Gethers' farce lies in its ill-conceived hero, a hulking, preposterously implausible Greek cook named Tomas Agganis (Bill Travers). Actor Travers tries manfully to get a tongue-hold on his role, but what comes out is Basic Choctaw compounded with his Wee Geordie burr. A boyhood brush with the Greek constabulary has left Agganis with the disconcerting habit of kayoing any man who lays a hand on him. This reflex comes in handy whenever Playwright Gethers needs to plot-boil a climax...
...have become President-Franklin Roosevelt offered him the vice-presidential nomination in 1944, and gave it to Harry Truman when Rayburn rejected it. "I'd rather be Speaker than any ten Senators," he sometimes said. "I love the House." It was a love that stretched back to early boyhood. As a suntanned youngster in Bonham, Texas, he peeped under the flap of a fairground tent and, with thumping heart, listened to the thunderations of Joe Bailey, a hell-for-leather Congressman. That did it. Later, Sam confided his ambitions to a brother: "I'm going to make...