Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First-night attendance at Giordano's little-known work was small: the company lost $5,000 on the performance. But thanks to Cincinnati's loyal music lovers, the "Zoopera" could afford such losses. Last winter, after the opera had accumulated a deficit of some $44,000, Cincinnatians subscribed to a whopping Fine Arts Fund to support the summer series along with the Cincinnati Symphony, the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Taft Museum. The opera...
...desk examining every piece of news as it comes in and saying 'publish this' or 'don't publish that' ... is too fantastic . . . [But] of course I am consulted and give decisions." Lord Beaverbrook, a lusty battler for free enterprise and Empire first, snapped: "I run my papers [Daily Express, Evening Standard] purely for the purpose of making propaganda ... On the few occasions when [my editors] have had different views on an Empire matter to myself, I talked them out of it." The commission also heard Lord Camrose (Daily Telegraph), Lord Rothermere (Daily Mail), Harry...
...onto the stage. There were shotgun blasts, scampering midgets, severed arms, proscenium-climbing cupids and baboons in full cry. Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, the rowdiest, slap-happiest zanies in show business, had moved into Milton Berle's time spot (Tues. 8 p.m. E.D.T., NBC TV) with their first television show...
Family Act. The Buick-sponsored, hour-long uproar offered explosive fragments of an act the comics have been working on for 35 years. It grew from the first prop they ever used - a brass rail to support their vaudeville rendition of Sweet Adeline. Today, their hundreds of props fill three baggage cars, their cast of 90 includes 35 stooges. For all its size, the show is still essentially a family vaudeville act. Johnson's pretty daughter, June, and his son-in-law, Comic Marty May, have leading roles. So does deadpan Ole's deadpan son, J. C. Olsen...
Baumann, now 32, is not a scientific geneticist, and he does not quite know how he developed his wingless breed. It was part luck and part persistence, he thinks. At first only a few of the chicks he hatched in his small incubator turned out wingless. Year by year, the proportion rose. Today, 95% of his chicks are wingless...