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Idealism or no, the speech was perilously close to a flop. Even the hired TV eye could not blink away the sight of an uninspired audience. Next day the Stevenson camp was blaming the teleprompters and the bad acoustics in the hall. But the Kefauverites were not so charitable, told each other and whoever wanted to listen that Adlai Stevenson had failed to land any solid political punches...
Hecht first saw Lancaster act in Burt's only stage venture, the 1945 Broadway flop A Sound of Hunting. They began talking independent production immediately, and two years later they had filmed the B-minus chiller Kiss the Blood off My Hands...
...conductor, Legrand remained virtually unknown to the buying public, partially because he was not clearly identified with any single popular school. Maurice Chevalier changed that, when he hired Legrand to conduct the orchestra on one of his series of U.S. TV Spectaculars last spring. Legrand's loose-jointed, flop-haired conducting style intrigued TV audiences, and when he returned to Paris, he was greeted by a crowd (and a batch of publicity handouts depicting him as a man who had taken the U.S. by storm). Since then, Legrand has worked an around-the-clock schedule...
...Work of Handicraft. Divided into classical and modern sections, the show opened with 25 exhibits, drew hordes of admiring students and scores of professors who were torn by mixed emotions. In Suárez' opinion, the modern section was a bit of a flop: "A chuleta, to be worthy, must bear the imprint of the student's personality and be a work of Spanish handicraft...
...much of the old troupe--many of whom gave up better-paying jobs to return to the Brattle. Once again, the season was artistically successful--both Henry IV, Part I and Othello made two-week stands at New York's City Center. And once again, it was a financial flop, just as Haliday and the other organizers had realized it would...