Word: featly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...characteristically Rubinsteinian feat-part grandstand play, part musical passion. "Anyone could do it," he says with grand self-depreciation, "but no one will imitate me because I won't make a penny on it." Out of his share of the receipts Rubinstein was paying for the accompanying symphony orchestra (mostly members of the New York Philharmonic Symphony) under Conductor Alfred Wallenstein. Despite the backbreaking concert schedule, tireless Artur Rubinstein took on two recording sessions, one of them at midnight (he has sold more than 3,000,000 albums for RCA Victor...
Welles, in his first attempt at motion pictures, introduced photographic and dramatic effects which Hollywood, in its years of experience, had never come close to. Fifteen years later, Citizen Kane still stands as a masterpiece of directing, acting, and content. It was no easy feat to capture the life of a man of 76 years in 119 minutes. That the film does have discontinuities and lacks a strong sense of forward movement and plot was inevitable. Yet the film maintains a great sense of the dramatic and is quite gripping...
...assistance was needed. In Chicago he trudged through the manure in the stockyards, spotted and sold (to a livestock commission buyer) a choice lot of hogs at $15.25 a hundredweight, 25? above the day's previous high. Given a stockman's cane as a souvenir of his feat, Benson later referred to the cane as a reminder that hogs should never "go below that price again." But before the week was out, the top for hogs in Chicago had slipped...
...relic is the realization that great-grandmother once laughed at it. More to modern taste are the two Mr. Magoo cartoons. Good old Magoo staggers through a skiing trip and the sale of his furniture in grand style. He is even better than Groucho Marx, which is quite a feat...
When owl-eyed Phil Silvers scored his surprising Trendex rating victory over Milton Berle, he was the first entertainer to accomplish the feat in all Berle's years on television. Silvers followed his win with a similar victory over Martha Raye. Last week, to prove it was no accident, he beat Uncle Miltie again. Bald, horn-rimmed Phil Silvers, 43, has been near the show-business top for years (as in Broadway's hit musicals, High Button Shoes and Top Banana}, but until his TV Phil Silvers Show (Tues. 8 p.m., CBS), he had never quite scored...