Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boys with Their Sisters. The T. & C., which has made it big just when most large nightclubs are not able to make it at all, has the air of a neighborhood bar trying to masquerade as the Hollywood Bowl, and half-succeeding. The cavernous, turquoise-walled main room rises in tiers from an elevated stage that could double as a soccer field. The reservation crowd ("We like nobody off the street") comes mostly from Brooklyn; whole families take tables together, and women's clubs sit in solid platoons. Girls dance with one another, little boys with their sisters...
...stand. When he was cleaned out of the real-estate business by the Depression, Maksik borrowed $200, slapped together a wooden frankfurters-and-Coke stand, gradually expanded it into a nightclub by acquiring a jukebox, liquor and cabaret licenses and a dance floor. Two and a half years ago he borrowed $1,000,000, built his present colossus. The logistics of its operation, he soon found, were staggering. The 40-man kitchen staff is geared to turn out 1,700 meals (broiled sirloins, Chinese combination plates) in half an hour. To ferry these around, Maksik employs roughly 100 waiters...
...hotel room where his wife was waiting. As he recalls it, they looked at each other for a long moment, and Hilda Fry said quietly, "I'm sorry." Said Fry to a friend last week: "I have always suspected that of those who voted for me in 1944, half thought they were voting for my father and half for my grandfather...
...rang with Dickensian speeches by such able players as Denholm Elliott in the role of Charles Darnay, Rosemary Harris as his wife, Eric Portman as Dr. Manette and Agnes Moorehead, who played Madame Defarge as if the revolution depended on it. But Tale was the finest hour-and-a-half for Director Robert Mulligan, 33, especially in his mob scenes, and Scottish Actor James Donald, 40, who portrayed the cynical Sydney Carton with insight and intensity. A veteran of the Old Vic stage and British movies (White Corridors, Brandy for the Parson), Donald was believable to the story...
...trip to the RKO lot was at once a sentimental journey and an ironic triumph. It is where they met, fell in love-and left in the early '40s under the shadow of Desi's dropped option. Since then, babyfaced. Cuban-born Desi has become not only half of TV's most popular comedy team, but the self-made boss of a company that produces, or takes a hand in producing, 27 TV shows.* This year on three different lots Desilu will grind out 270 hours of filmed television entertainment-more than twice the footage...