Word: gleason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Take Me Along. Although this musical version of Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! does not dazzle the senses, it leaves a generally pleasant, nostalgic aftertaste. With Jackie Gleason...
...GLEASON MATTOON Assistant Editor Horticulture Magazine Boston
...Glen Springs, Ala., who committed his art to posterity only once, at a recording session in Nashville, Tenn. in 1956. Another glowing Hammer review appeared in the New York World-Telegram & Sun: "His recent death was a tragic loss . . . A great album." Then San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Ralph J. Gleason played the record, found that Buck had an advantage over other pianists -he was apparently born with three hands. Last week the perpetrator of the hoax confessed that he and Hammer were one. His name: Steve Allen...
...sooner had Gleason's confession been made public than the World-Telegram fired him. As for Colleague Cook, he had declared on the television show that he had reported the bribery attempt to his World-Telegram superiors. Later, he toned down that flat statement, merely claimed that he had mentioned the matter to City Editor Norton Mockridge "in the course of a long lunch" several weeks after the bribe was allegedly offered. But Mockridge denied ever having heard of the sorry business-and at that point Rewriteman Fred Cook followed Legman Gene Gleason right off the World-Telegram payroll...
Take Me Along. Trusting to mood rather than momentum, this musical version of Eugene O'Neill's only sunny play (Ah, Wilderness!) provides a pleasantly nostalgic evening. With Jackie Gleason, Walter Pidgeon, Eileen Herlie and Robert Morse...