Word: edmond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC). Icebound, with Nina Foch, Edmond O'Brien...
Wild Bill Davison holds the fort at Eddie Condon's 3rd Street hideaway, with Edmond Hall and Gene Schroeder in the band and Ralph Sutton working the intermissions. Buck Clayton, Joe Bushkis, and Art Tatum are at New York's new jazz spot. The Embers, 161 East 54th. Pea Wee Erwin is at Nick's, at 10th and Seventh, and Conrad Janis is at, Ryan's the last holdout of the once famous 52nd Street...
There is a sly humor in such episodes as that of Noah and the Flood; a piquant realism to making the headquarters of the Lord a sleepy, small-town office. The best performances-such as Ossie Davis' as Gabriel-have an easy charm, and the best of Robert Edmond Jones's sets have a clean, morning freshness. And the Hall Johnson Choir strikes a resonant note with its singing of the spirituals...
While passengers on the Queen Elizabeth lined the rails before dawn to cheer them off, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and wife Mamie boarded a tender, headed for Cherbourg dockside. At a breakfast reception in the customs shed, the general drank a champagne toast with Cherbourg's Mayor Edmond Soufflet, recalled that his arrival this time had been considerably easier than his Normandy landing more than six years ago, added seriously: "With God's help, and with all of us working together, we can keep peace." The general then boarded a plane for Paris and his new duties...
...current production is a tribute to a great many people, apart from the author. It is a tribute to producer Dwight Deere Wiman, who did not live to see it on the stage. Robert Edmond Jones, who designed the original production, has proved that he still has a powerful command of light and form and color. He has mounted "The Green Pastures" in simple, direct colors as warm as the fable itself. He is frank to admit that his sets are made of painted canvas, and the result is completely disarming...