Word: directors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curtain time on opening night in Brussels, almost everything connected with the new opera seemed to have gone wrong. Less than a month before, Composer-Librettist-Director Gian Carlo Menotti was still frantically writing Act III when he put Act I into rehearsal. In the last hours he found that the orchestra pit in the U.S. Pavilion's theater looked all wrong, ordered it repainted dark brown. Belgium's Queen Elisabeth arrived for the premiere, had to be placed in a niche originally designed for spotlights, since the American theater had nothing like a royal box. About...
...rods and put in dotted lines to represent axes. That way nobody will mistake them for anything physical." Middleman-and translator-between the chemists and the cinemakers is Earl Mortensen, one of Eyring's graduate students. He draws rough sketches of reactions, helps Sutherland's art director with their translation into smooth, readily understood pictures. Hildebrand's committee reviews screen tests of animated reactions (it turned down six of the first eight shown) and reworking begins. When the first classes see the two $50.000 films next spring, nine months of painstaking effort will have gone into them...
Grand Prix. The efforts of the radio and camera men have encouraged other Japanese industries to follow suit. Says Koji Kato, director of Alps Shoji toy company: "Past experience shows that flimsy, cheap toys are the best way to lose a market. We are now working to make toys more durable, safer, and at the same time more advanced than foreign makes." U.S. Toymaker Louis Marx is giving the industry a hand, recently went to Japan with a plan to reorganize the entire Japanese toy industry by supplying U.S. technicians, leasing machines, supplying designs and working out a "division...
Failing to win election (by 394,000 shares) at the May annual meeting, Phillips tried, by a series of serious charges, to bar the Pennsy's directors from taking their seats. He accused the Pennsy of violating Securities and Exchange Commission and state regulations by refusing to deliver stockholder lists to him, argued that President James M. Symes made "false and misleading statements" in two proxy letters which said that Phillips had "no experience or qualifications to serve as a director," and that he had assumed "self-conferred, high-sounding titles to describe his career...
Died. Walter Schumann, 44, who described himself as a "commercial musician," composer, director of The Voices of Walter Schumann, a 20-member choral group; of a heart ailment; at University Hospital, Minneapolis. Walter Schumann's credits were various and occasionally bizarre. In 1941 he published The Hut-Sut Song (lyrics: "Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla brawla sooit . . ."), also wrote the famed dum-da-dum-dum theme of radio-TV's Dragnet series...