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Jaunty old Canon Kir is a Gallic equivalent of the late Fiorello La Guardia-a Napoleon-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) "autocrat" with no inhibitions. In his normal dress of beret, black cassock and high-laced shoes, Kir occasionally descends on the gendarmé directing traffic at Dijon's Coin du Miroir, takes over, creates monumental traffic tie-ups. At the inauguration of a new public school gymnasium, Kir, cassock and all, shinnied up five feet of rope to answer a photographer's challenge. When he found himself locked out of his apartment, Kir stalked back...
...Since he has been director, producer, writer, actor or plastic surgeon for 103 Broadway shows of all types except the intellectual-Twentieth Century, Room Service, Pal Joey, High Button Shoes, Where's Charley?, Call Me Madam, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Wonderful Town, Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, Fiorello!, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Never Too Late-it might have been expected that his book would contain a profusion of insights and smoky anecdotes...
...stories of her flight came to the EVENING JOURNAL and in none of them was there anything except a jest at the unseen one who traveled with her and who always laughs last. Men call him Death." At a city hall reception, Dorothy bent to kiss New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and then dashed off several reprises of her trip. "Well, what have I done?" she asked her readers. "I'm the first woman to have flown around the world. I circumnavigated the globe in 24 days, twelve hours and 51 minutes. This is almost three times...
Jerome Weidman, who wrote Fiorello!, has written a courtroom play called The Ivory Tower about a poet like Ezra Pound who is tried for treason for making wartime broadcasts telling American troops to lay down their arms (November). Franchot Tone stars in Bicycle Ride to Nevada, an adaptation of Barnaby Conrad's novel Dangerfield, which deals with a Nobel prizewinner novelist who has slid down his 50s into alcoholism (Sept. 26). Conrad was once literary secretary to Sinclair Lewis. Edward Albee has adapted The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers' dark-visionary study of human grotesques...
...Booze. The jurors, though, were loudly upset. "Farce," cried Critic John Mason Brown. "We've had enough," said Yale Drama Professor J. W. Gassner, who recalled that when he and Brown recommended Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic in 1960, it was jettisoned for the musical Fiorello! Both jurors quit. Apparently, the play's preoccupation with bed and booze proved too much for some of the 14 Advisory Board members. "I thought it was a filthy play," said Chicago Tribune Editor William D. Maxwell, who spends part of his time back home scrubbing books "by dirty...