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Charles L. Wagner is a U. S. impresario who looks like Jim Farley in a toupee and who long ago exchanged his flat Illinois drawl for rapid-fire Manhattanese. Fifty years ago he gave up collecting celebrities' autographs, began collecting them on contracts instead. Since then Impresario Wagner has barnstormed up & down the U. S. selling such big-time figures as William Jennings Bryan, John McCormack, Galli-Curci. Mary Garden, Walter Gieseking to the public...
High point of Power and the Land is the earthy, simple commentary written by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet and read in a hayseed drawl by Radio Actor William P. Adams. Typical Beneticism: "This is good land-not the best and not the worst. But it has raised five kids, and that's good work for any land. . . . Kids are just about the best crop there...
...concoct his own jokes. Most of them depend on gagmen for their wit. Allen writes much of his show himself, decisively edits the contributions of his two assistant scripteurs. Practically unchanged this season will be the formula that carried his program along on NBC. In his dry, unhappy, singsong drawl, Allen will still handle 60% of the dialogue, manage, between musical pauses, to give his own news of the week, interview unexpected guests, preside over the dramatic doings of the Mighty Allen Art Players. For his famed ad libs a few minutes will be reserved as usual on each...
These triumphs were achieved by Richard Knight because: 1) his appearance was formidable and extraordinary; 2) in his calm Texas drawl he could be more shocking, more amusing, frequently more rude than the people he was subtly courting. He was also a clever lawyer. His business thrived. He was not merely asked to Newport and Palm Beach; he was invited again & again. He had hundreds of acquaintances, few intimate friends...
William Lamb naturally fell easy victim to the wholly different boudoir atmosphere of Devonshire House, whose tyrant was slight, agile, wide-eyed, willful, 17-year-old Caroline Ponsonby. Her lisping voice cooed out words in "the Devonshire House drawl." Said a rival: "Lady Caroline baas like a little sheep." Caroline liked to gallop bareback, to dress in trousers. Sometimes she would scream and tear her clothes, kick the floor with her heels. But she was vivid, fitful, daring and held even outraged relatives spellbound...