Word: du
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note said: "Please be at Apartment Eight on the first floor of No. 15 Blaue Lampe Strasse at 6 this evening." Beautiful Countess Kristina Dukay popped into her "sheer, cobweb-thin, rose-colored slip" and a blue dress, dabbed on some stuff called Chanson du Narcisse and scuttled off to the assignation . . . The door opened, and in came a man wearing a beard and yellow spectacles. As Kristina teetered in a state of pleasant giddiness, the man raised his hand, ripped off his beard and spectacles, and stood revealed-the Emperor Karl of Austria himself...
...bigger audiences meant that TV networks might this year cut their skyrocketing losses. Yet none of the networks was entirely happy. Because there are only two coaxial cables, their use must be divided among NBC (which has more sponsored TV shows than any of the others), CBS, ABC and Du Mont...
...these leaders are Pixie Playtime, on Manhattan's WPIX, featuring Peter W. Pixie, assisted by a Mae West-like mermaid and a witch who tortures victims by telling them old radio jokes; Little Bordy, a puppet disc jockey; the Suzari Marionettes on ABC's The Singing Lady; Du Mont's woodenheaded Oky-Doky; and Mr. Do-Good and Judy Splinters, a pair of West Coast contenders. Du Mont's popular Small Fry Club, which has previously depended on animated cartoons, movies and interminable commercials, is next week adding to its cast a puppet named Pirro...
Montreal's Théátre du Gesu was sold out at every performance last week. The darling of the French Canadian theater, an impish comedian named Fridolin (real name: Gratien Gélinas) was on the stage in his new play...
Fridolin, who scored a hit in Eddie Dowling's St. Lazare's Pharmacy in Chicago in 1945, was in no rush. Weekly receipts at the Theatre du Gesu were $12,000, and nearly half of it was profit (before taxes) for Author-Producer-Director Fridolin. To earn that kind of money, he played only five shows a week, had plenty of time left to spend with his wife and six children. Neither the money nor the hours would be as good on Broadway...