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Slice of Life. Dragnet's realism is simply a byproduct of Webb's lust to entertain. As director, story editor, casting chief and star of the show, he purposely refrains from dramatic artifice, and thus achieves a different kind of dramatic effect. Seldom has the slice-of-life technique of storytelling been so successfully transmitted to film. Dragnet is not a whodunit at all, and both murder and the sound of gunfire are rare on its shows. Webb sometimes produces truly frightening effects (as in The Big Jump, a film in which he struggles with a madman...
Other top entertainers, including sabby Lewis and his "blue" band, Vic Dickinson and the Mahogany All-Stars, and popular singer Ellie Williams, will entertain...
...Kabuki company plans to entertain New York for four weeks, move on to Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, then to Europe. Sticklers for authenticity, the dancers brought their own cypress stage with them. This week, as is the custom when a brand-new stage is used, an official of the company consecrated it and invoked traditional Kabuki blessings-before any union stagehand was allowed to lay a hand...
Founded six years ago to provide a number of services the Student Council felt the University lacked, the Key's set functions were to welcome, guide, and entertain visiting athletic teams, aid the University in guiding official guests, and co-ordinate the operations of the Undergraduate Schools Committee. In addition, the Key runs an annual spring dance...
...from Las Vegas, Nev. back to her Hollywood playground. Inheriting an estimated $12 million from her father, a New York leather manufacturer, she got her title with her second husband, Italy's Count Carlo di Frasso. A fervent believer in the strenuous life, she once hired prizefighters to entertain her guests! joined Cinemactor Gary Cooper on a big-game safari into the African jungle, with the late Mobster Bugsy Siegel set out in a schooner to search for a buried treasure off Costa Rica. When death came, the Countess was in full re galia: a full-length mink coat...