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Word: filles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insist they don't make a profit, in the long run. The considerable amount of money brought in from a play such as Death of A Salesman goes to fill the deficit for some such turkey as Macbeth. And it is useless to exhort the Club not to produce bad plays. The big income for a production like Hamlet is met by equally big expenses for extravagant costumes and costly set construction. If the HDC could reduce spending on these two items, perhaps ticket prices might be lowered to a more reasonable level; certainly cost of a production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ticket Tab | 3/8/1957 | See Source »

...with Harold Scott's performance in mind. It requires a series of small, bright, subtle responses, and Scott has these at his fingertips. He displays an extraordinary sense of rhythm and timing, but never just as a show of technical virtuosity. The depth of this performance is enough to fill many a professional with envy...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Deathwatch | 3/7/1957 | See Source »

Visually, no part of the production was entirely satisfactory. In his first opera sets Designer Oliver (My Fair Lady) Smith seemed to be desperately attempting to fill the vast, open spaces of the Met's stage with Todd-AO-sized vistas of a kind rarely viewed by a courtesan in Verdi's mid-19th century Paris. Under Tyrone Guthrie's posturing direction, Violetta entertained her first-act guests in a towering, vine-entwined conservatory, while in the third act the chorus moved confusingly up and down a curving marble staircase. Costume Designer Rolf Gerard provided the principal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Todd-AO Traviata | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Mollified Lobby. In another version of the Seaton new look, Ross Lillie Leffler, 70, last week was confirmed by the Senate to fill the new post of Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife. Philadelphia Steelman Leffler assumes control of two equal bureaus devised as partial mollification of the powerful conservation and sportsmen's lobby, which McKay had offended. Not entirely satisfied with simple equality, the conservationists nonetheless like Leffler, trust Seaton and are willing to give the new system a chance. They are also pleased because Fred Seaton has suspended the issuance of oil and gas leases on federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Look at Interior | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...year-old British mining firm, Rio Tinto Co., Ltd. of London, which acquired them along with other Blind River properties from Brooklyn-born Joe Hirshhorn for $60 million in cash and securities. At peak the mines will soon be turning out $110,000 worth of uranium concentrates daily to fill the guaranteed Canadian government purchases of $206.9 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Flow at Blind River | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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