Word: extras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...companies, the Group 20 Players maintained the highest quality in choice of play and level of production. They offered four shows instead of the announced five, since two of the four proved to be such hits that each was held over an extra week, and the scheduled production of Giraudoux's Tiger at the Gates was dropped at the season's close...
...next offering, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, had to be held over for an extra week. This eloquent and moving tragedy of the little man is surely the finest serious American play since Eugene O'Neill; and it enjoyed a distinguished performance under a British director, Basil Langton, despite the fact that it is an intensely American work...
...details that always seem to interrupt the textbook version of military precision. The dining room chairs (with under-seat cap racks) had not yet arrived; two colonels and two majors knocked their heads together over the problem of where the cadets would place their caps during supper (solution: on extra tables and under chairs). And the Roman Catholic chaplain was hunting for the culprit who installed a pingpong table in his temporary chapel. "It's organized confusion," moaned one light colonel. "And that's the worst kind...
...Government bond market turned so weak that when the Treasury floated a $16.3 billion issue of one-year certificates, the FRB had to support the market by buying $1.2 billion of it, thus adding to the credit supply. Then it tried to tighten credit by sopping up the extra funds and permitting its banks to boost their discount rates. For the debacle in bonds, whether brought on by fumbles by the Treasury or the surprisingly quick turnabout in the economy, the Treasury is being bitterly blamed. Said Armand Erpf of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.: "I suppose the loss...
...there on the stage getting an Oscar. But where was Rhoda? On Oscar night she was with him and gave him a big buss, but most of the time she was home. And home was a dumpy little house in Van Nuys, a neighborhood where not even an extra would want to live between pictures. Rhoda liked it there with all the other homebodies, and for a while Ernie liked it too. But then everybody wanted Ernie to be a big shot, and at the same time everybody wanted him to be Marty. On the set they went around saying...