Word: duke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Orchestras of the Nation (Sat. 3 p.m., NBC). U.S. premiere of Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, by the Dallas Symphony...
...Duke Ellington was the nation's No. 1 bandleader (for the fifth time), and top soloist (for the first time), according to Down Beat magazine's annual poll. Spike Jones was again King of Corn, nosing out Guy Lombard and Vaughn Monroe...
Recently, he returned from a European tour to find that Publisher-Impresario Alexander Sandor Ince, whom the staff called "the headlong Hungarian," had romped through most of the magazine's capital, including $30,000 from Doris Duke. Hiring & firing had taken a whimsical turn: Playwright William Saroyan, hired as a drama reviewer, was fired before he got a single review into print. Ince had not collected for many ads, and distribution was a mess: Theatre Arts, seldom to be seen in the Times Square theater district, was going begging on newsstands in Chicago flophouse neighborhoods. Yet somehow, circulation...
...Kind. Britain's 34,000-ton Caronia, biggest passenger liner built since the war, completed her last trial run before her maiden trip to New York next week. Honor guest was the Duke of Edinburgh, who cracked: "I'm sorry my wife can't be with me; as you know, we've had another launching in the meantime...
...Juan is to save pretty Queen Margaret (Viveca Lindfors) and her slightly addled king (Romney Brent) from the plots of an evil Duke de Lorca. Errol manages it with the help of nothing more than fire, sword, galloping horses, conspiring friends, and a few scattered incidents when he is called upon to prove that his strength is as the strength of ten because his heart is afire with love for the queen. No question of credibility is really involved in all this, since the story at no time resembles any situation ever likely to have been faced by any human...