Word: director
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last week, the staff of McCall's-The Magazine of Togetherness-began to come apart. Up to the desk of McCall Corp. President Arthur B. Langlie stalked Editor-Publisher Otis Lee Wiese with a one-sentence resignation. Ten minutes later, Advertising Director Bill Carr (like Wiese, a McCall board member and vice president) was in with his: "I understand that Otis Wiese is no longer with the McCall Corp. . . . This eliminates the last hope I've had for professional management in the company...
...long and the next, the quit parade continued to Langlie's tenth-floor office in the magazine's Park Avenue building-John English, managing editor; Jay Stanwyck, director of research; Estelle Lane Brent, fashion editor; Betty Parsons Ragsdale, fiction editor; Marion Wheeler, production editor; Peggy Bell, features editor. By week's end 16 staffers had resigned, and, one by one, McCall's publicity department doggedly issued terse press releases with the news. Some of the departees were so angry that they left without cleaning out their desks, had their belongings shipped home. Shrugged Langlie...
...refurbish the perennially popular double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, the Met's Rudolf Bing got lavish, handsome but unimaginative new sets from the hands of Scene Designer Rolf Gerard, hired a top Broadway director, Jose (Long Day's Journey into Night) Quintero. Although he had never done an opera before, and had seen only half a dozen in his life, Director Quintero somehow managed to absorb most of the stagy, stiff-kneed mannerisms of traditional opera productions. Nevertheless, particularly in Pagliacci, he added some truly exciting touches: Nedda, starting her first-act aria reclining voluptuously...
...gawkers kicked off the set, banned cussing crewmen, played love scenes with Leading Man Tony Curtis as if enclosed in a cake of ice. It was tough on Curtis, a simpler type who can still exclaim: "Gee, Marilyn Monroe makin' love to me!" Marilyn also huffily rebuffed Producer-Director Billy Wilder's smallest advice ("You'll make me forget how I'm going to do this scene"). A mild man, Wilder survived by treating Monroe like a fine Swiss watch: "Only it doesn't start ticking when you just wind. You have to shake...
...Brando? Meanwhile, the Bird is busy with his other charges. Hollywood recognized his belligerent direction behind Director Rouben Mamoulian's recent spat with Sam Goldwyn. (Even Mamoulian does not seem to mind that the publicity-reaping battle cost him the job of directing Porgy and Bess.) And not long ago, Birdwell sold gullible movie columnists the phony yarn that Greta Garbo had expressed an interest in the movie version of Lolita. Director Stanley Kubrick, who is Birdwell's client, is supposed to have ruled Garbo out of Lolita but offered her the part of Marlon Brando...