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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orleans Jazz Party (Gene Mayl's Dixieland Rhythm Kings; Riverside LP). A bunch of youngsters in Dayton carrying on the tradition of "righteous" (i.e., primitive) jazz. They sound for all the world like bands of three decades ago, including twanging banjo and two-beat tuba, but with none of the surface noise of old records, and some fresh ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

Prospering in the Pharaoh's favor, the soldier aspires to the hand of the Pharaoh's sister (Gene Tierney), but the young physician cannot heal himself of his lust for a whore of Babylon (Bella Darvi). In time, Sinuhe is cured by the love of a servant girl (Jean Simmons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 30, 1954 | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

...from Author Waltari. Jean Simmons, as his bright angel,' looks pretty carrying a jug on her head. As his dark angel, Bella Darvi manages, even while wearing green nail polish and a wig like a blue floor mop, to stave off the horselaughs-no mean accomplishment. Gene Tierney models some fetching Egyptian clothes, and Victor Mature's chief contribution to his role is the strength to carry 65 Ibs. of armor on his back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 30, 1954 | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

Summer Playhouse (Tues. 9 p.m., NBC). Gene Raymond in Full Portrait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Aug. 23, 1954 | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...over the U.S. wear Factor "toups" (price: up to $150 apiece), and the company sells 20,000 a year. In Hollywood, nine out of every ten male stars over the age of 35 wear "hair additions" on the screen (on the current list: Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, Henry Fonda, Gene Kelly, Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Stewart), most of them made by Max Factor. Says Max Jr.: "If they're wearing them, they're Factor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Glamour for Sale | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

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