Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sheen of art that live weekly dramas once gave TV is fast rubbing off. Due to die by fall are Studio One, Climax!, Kraft Theater and Matinee Theater. There was one particularly noisy survivor-a stubby, pugnacious man named David Susskind, 37. Producer Susskind has 25 live drama spectaculars lined up for next season, including seven for Du Pont, seven for Rexall, two for Sheaffer Pen. This is nearly twice as many as any other packager; and, with his bi-weekly Armstrong Circle Theater, Susskind next year may well be producing a good third of the major live-drama output...
Martin, Julie Harris, Alfred Drake, Katharine Cornell, Charles Boyer, Ed Wynn. Mrs. Alberg's credo: "Other shows try to make popular things good. We try to make good things popular." They have. While many other dramatic shows (Studio One, Kraft Theater, Climax!) are rumored to have dismal prospects of autumn survival, Hall of Fame is already signed to produce its regular six-a-year slate of shows next year...
...proved to be a propulsive, clamorous virtuoso work in both twelve-tone and traditional diatonic idioms, with its limber solo line woven through the big sonorities of the orchestra in a stirringly unfolding tapestry of sound. The first movement, in alternating slow and fast tempi, built to its main climax by echoing the solo violin nights with orchestral figurations set at closer and closer intervals. By turns, the second movement was complex and agitated, waltzlike and melodic, with muted violins and then muted trumpets repeating the soloist's refrainlike theme. The third movement opened with rich orchestral tone clusters...
...fitting climax to a compendium of festivities at once serious and light-hearted, the confetti battle symbolized the perpetual struggle between the young and the old. Alumni, clad in outrageous costumes, staging pranks reminiscent of their undergraduate days, debunking the pious and scorning treasured icons, would assault members of the senior class with streamers, confetti, and any piece of available rubbish...
...Crimson heavyweight varsity set a new record Saturday to beat Princeton, MIT and Rutgers in the Compton Cup race. The varsity win was the climax of a day that saw the Crimson sweep four races at Princeton and five lightweight races at Dartmouth...