Word: director
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evil one with a dagger. The 'assassination attempt flopped all right. Lunging at his quarry, Actor Luis Santana bumped into a blazing brazier, and raced howling across the set, his cloak a flaming torch. Gina was horror-struck; Santana, soon doused, with only minor burns, was badly shaken. Director King Vidor? The cameras had caught the scene, and he decided to rescript slightly for that touch of burning realism...
...stubbornly refuses to leave his apartment in "Warm Alley" for the new development, and a married couple named Sasha and Masha, who are forced to kiss goodnight each evening and retire to their separate dwellings. Eventually all the characters get apartments in a triumph over the bureaucratic housing director and his scheming wife...
...those promoted by the Theatre Guild through 23 cities, have a fighting chance, but big-name actors no longer like to hit the road, and road-show audiences are no longer satisfied unless they see big-name actors. "Producers forget that the U.S. has become a metropolitan country," says Director Morton (Music Man) Da Costa. "With communication and TV what they are, there's no longer any such thing as the sticks. You can't patronize people anymore...
...Museum Director Lee Malone says: "All this space is so majestic, so flexible." To prove it last week Director Malone put on a display of 60 ultramodern paintings (e.g., France's Hans Hartung and Manhattan's Mark Rothki), hung each picture from the ceiling on picture wire to provide an installation as nearly invisible as the museum's own structure. Donor Cullinan said happily: "The new wing is like a great stage which faces the city. Another might have built a nice, safe building. I wanted something that would be contemporary for generations to come." Touring...
Weeding through 1,600 entries, Corcoran Director Hermann Warner Williams concluded that the pendulum may at last be swinging back to Levine's (and Bierstadt's) way. So far, Williams finds this trend toward more representative subjects only partially successful. Says he: "There is a more or less lost generation of young painters who turned up their noses at the basic disciplines of draftsmanship and just jumped into abstraction. Although they are now trying to use figures, they can't make the switch because they haven't had those early disciplines...