Word: delight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last summer rumors got around that Editor Ruppel was unhappy over "changes in routine" which gave other editors added authority in the local room. Two weeks ago he announced he was leaving, was feted at a noisy, sentimental banquet. Times reporters and writers whooped with delight when courtly Musicritic Robert Pollak stood up and described the arrival of Editor Ruppel as a "foundling" in the Times's lobby nearly four years ago. Said he: "The baby was wrapped in an old copy of the New York Daily News. When we first made out its cries it was yelling...
...playing as for his clowning- for years wanted to play a legitimate role. "I'm tired"' said he, "of being an Edgar Bergen." Recently his ambition soared at the thought of playing the lead role of a hoofer in Robert E. Sherwood's Idiot's Delight, while his "idealism" was aroused by the play's anti-war message...
Baker made arrangements with the Theatre Guild and Alfred Lunt, chucked his lucrative radio work, took Idiot's Delight on tour. Hailed as a natural for the hoofer role, he got rave notices. But the show did poor business, wound up its brief tour last week $10,000 in the red.* "Ten thousand dollars." said Baker, who is returning to radio to recoup before taking another crack at the stage, "is more than it was worth...
...being printed in Greece. The Analects of Confucius, printed in Shanghai, reads from back to front, is boxed in carved Chinese redwood. In France, "the owner of a paper mill seeks 100,000 chemises (and diapers, and castoff socks)" in order to make a paper which will "give you delight in its appearance and in its feel...
Pygmalion delighted both critics and cinemaddicts in England, where it has been playing for seven weeks. It is likely to delight U. S. critics and cinemaddicts. More significant, it pleased its own author. Heretofore adamant in refusing to sell cinema rights of his plays (with the exception of two shorts: How He Lied to Her Husband, Arms and the Man), Bernard Shaw not only helped write the script for Pygmalion but agreed to let Producer Pascal film all his other plays. Producer Pascal will soon start work on Caesar and Cleopatra...