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...Hollywood, An old-timer confided to me one afternoon in L.A. that the only reason the San Fernando Valley was built was for use as a backdrop in an M-C-M musical. It was recently smashed to dust for Earthquake. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." Oz orders Dorothy when she comes wise to his act. "I'm a very good man, it's just that I'm a very bad wizard," he says when the jig is up. But the jig is not up in Hollywood because the wizards have learned how to read charts...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: The Envelope, Please | 4/10/1975 | See Source »

...have served to create a perhaps inevitable barrier between Thieu and the people he leads. These days, he rarely uses the Presidential Palace on Cong Ly Boulevard, which is barricaded from the rest of Saigon by sentry boxes, steel barriers and tangles of barbed wire. He moves behind a curtain of almost total secrecy, constantly switching locations between a series of private addresses within and outside the city. Since the attack on Ban Me Thuot on March 10, he has not appeared in public or even been photographed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Thieu: Between Himself and His God | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

...Muse. Several cities are raising the curtain on a modern form of the Federal Theater Project, which at its height under the WPA in the 1930s employed 12,000 out-of-work actors, directors, playwrights and other stage artists, including Clifford Odets, Orson Welles, Harold Clurman and Elia Kazan. The present efforts are also federally financed, under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. In Los Angeles, 71 unemployed artists will be organized into acting, dancing and puppeteering troupes, which will tour the city's parks, schools and centers for the aged. In San Francisco, 113 jobs have been created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: RECESSION NOTES | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

Foreign Correspondent. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Torn Curtain at 10 p.m. Sunday night 7 30, 9 30 p.m. respectively in Science Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard | 3/20/1975 | See Source »

...Walter, who would ease up to the nearest basket of pretzels, slip it stealthily under his coat, and go home to share it with his wife as they watched people winning thousands of dollars on "Treasure Hunt" and trading away a new Cadillac Eldorado for the oxcart behind The Curtain That Carol is Pointing To on "Let's Make a Deal...

Author: By Rich Meislin, | Title: My Jug Runneth Under | 3/19/1975 | See Source »

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