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Hoosier Tunesmith Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael, getting set to replace NBC Comics Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca for the summer, beat the television critics to the punch with a quick self-appraisal of his vocal talents: "You can't take too much of my voice. I play my records three times and then I can't stand them. It sounds awful monotonous...
Irascible Pianist Oscar Levant ran head-on into indomitable Boss James C. ("Little Caesar") Petrillo of the American Federation of Musicians. With word that the pianist had failed to keep five concert dates in Canada within the past fortnight, Petrillo banned Levant from all further bookings until the executive board hears the case. Said Czar Petrillo: "I have an idea that Levant feels he is bigger than the federation. This we cannot tolerate...
Salome concerns a liberal, John, who is stirring up the populace with his wild doctrine. John soon comes to the notice of Joseph McCarthey (to avoid legal action, he is called Pontius Pilate in the film) who orders his arrest. Tiberius Caesar, a former military man now ruling the land--the implication here cannot be ignored--does not intercede and so the liberal loses his head for the last time...
...would remind you," he told the National Civil Liberties Clearing House in Washington, "that the university has always been a forum in the presence of which the lords of the passing hour are subjected to scrutiny. No doubt the time has come to ask on what meat this our Caesar has fed, and to review his activities with the utmost objectivity, calm and chilly resolution, so that an authoritative report can be made to the people...
...that is one thing that tiny (5 ft. 1 in.), brown-haired Miss Donnis Martin, head of the Winthrop classics department, has always made sure of. This year she started the program off with a battle of wits, set eight quiz kids to answering such questions as: "What did Caesar say when he crossed the Rubicon? What is a Pyrrhic victory? What is the name of the three-headed dog that guarded Hades?" After that came a Latin movie about the Second Punic War, then a Plautus play called The Twins from Syracuse, and a rendering of the Marine song...