Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...culture-conscious citizens of Columbus, Ohio support three little-theater groups, a good art gallery, a vigorous symphony orchestra and, this season, some 50 concerts. Even so, the world premiere last week of Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten was Columbus' big cultural and social event. Undiscouraged by bitter weather, the city's elite honored it as such...
Beautiful Ugliness. Samuel T. Wilson, Columbus Dispatch drama critic and dean of Columbus reviewers, wrote that Moon is "the playwright's present towering achievement as a dramatic craftsman and above all as a poet . . . full of sentiment, music and meaning, warmth of human observation and comment, and vast sorrowfulness." Bud Kissel of the Columbus Citizen disputed: "A competent cast that never muffed a line nor missed a cue wasted their talents on an unimportant play." But Mary McGavran of the Ohio State Journal called the play "beautiful in its very ugliness." And William F. McDermott of the Cleveland Plain...
...Columbus, Ohio...
...bluntly: "It stinks. Too educational." Her first big Quizdown, jointly sponsored by the Chicago Times and Station WLS, went on the air in October 1945. It has gone on weekly ever since, sponsored by newspapers and local radio stations in Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Detroit, Miami, San Diego. Next month Columbus, Ohio, becomes her 14th Quiz-down town...
...Lustron made a deal with WAA to use part of the Curtiss-Wright plant at Columbus, Ohio. Then it went back to RFC and offered to invest $3.5 million of its own cash, along with another $6 million from private sources. RFC agreed to lend the $12.5 million...