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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week celebrated its 15th anniversary. The oldest and most popular drama show on the drama-heavy air. Lux Theater is billed as being "synonymous with all the greatness and glamour of Hollywood." Producer-Host William Keighley (rhymes with Seeley) calls it "good, solid, clean entertainment" in which "nothing is ever used that might offend...
Since the Hollywood studio theater seats only 1,400 people ("We get queues as long as the Radio City Music Hall," says Keighley), only a handful of Lux's devoted audience have ever seen their idols in the flesh. To make it up to the others, CBS has distributed a brochure on the stars' "mike mannerisms" that is jam-packed with nuggety information. Samples: Bing Crosby "always rehearses with his pipe clenched between his teeth, even when singing"; Robert Cummings "reads lines from a semi-crouch, like a boxer"; Joan Crawford is a "microphone-clutcher," while Barbara Stanwyck...
...season, first-nighters saw England's fine company do a Russian masterpiece the way it is still done only in the Soviet Union and Covent Garden. They sat, charmed, through the complete three-act, three-hour-long Tchaikovsky-Petipa ballet The Sleeping Beauty. Few could say they had ever seen a more lavish spectacle and dancing grace on a U.S. ballet stage. It took Conductor Constant Lambert a full five minutes to get the music in motion again after the thunderous ovation for Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann's third-act pas de deux...
Schulte has been flirting with the haberdashery business for nearly ten years, ever since the company went through bankruptcy reorganization in 1940. The new management figured that those who came in for cigarettes and tobacco might also walk out with a shirt or tie. Many did. But since men who knew tobacco best were running things, the haberdashery business was not pushed very hard. It failed to halt a decline in sales, and profits shriveled to a paltry...
Equally disenchanting are the narration and songs by Bing Crosby, who without ever putting in a personal appearance manages to impose his familiar personality on large chunks of the film like the second take of a double exposure...