Word: fancifulism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three performances--Romeo, Juliet, and Mercutio--are thoroughly outstanding. Richard Waring's Romeo is gentle and sad at times, and passionate and exalted at others. His voice is wonderfully modulated throughout the two records, and is always distinct and full of meaning. In the role of Juliet, Eva Le Gallienne...
Regarding your Sept. 11 article on Bob Prescott and his Flying Tiger Line, wherein you state he painted one of his C-47s like a totem pole and flew a "fanciful" Texan and eight friends to Vancouver, B.C. for a weekend:
Now about that word "fanciful." In early '46, with plane priorities still operative, it was nearly impossible to get one seat, let alone eight, on a flight. We had to get eight men up there for one week to buy the world's largest shingle mill . . .
The Sleeping City (Universal-International) uses Manhattan's vast, much-filmed Bellevue Hospital as the real background of a fanciful tale about a detective (Richard Conte) who poses as an interne. Detective Conte, who has had a couple of years of medical school and some service with the Army...
¶To meet the fanciful ideas of a Texan who wanted to fly a group of friends to Vancouver for a weekend, Bob Prescott painted one of his planes like a totem pole, wore a cowpuncher's outfit while piloting it.