Word: hechts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months, Veteran Author Ben (The Front Page) Hecht had spent four nights a week in front of his TV set, and it was a disturbing experience. But Hecht, sometime newspaperman, playwright, movie scenarist and novelist, felt it was necessary before setting to work on his first TV drama series, Tales of the City (alternate Thursdays, 8:30 p.m., CBS). His conclusions about TV: "There is no such thing as action in television. All the actors do is pretend there has been action-they pant and they groan and they tell you how far they have just run. TV seems dedicated...
Some Hints. The field is led by Parents' Institute Publisher George Hecht, 57 (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950), who has a simple explanation of why children are turning to magazines: "Every child likes to do what he sees his parents do," i.e., read magazines. As father of four of the biggest children's magazines, Publisher Hecht has copied some adult magazines exactly. Three years ago he put out a junior Reader's Digest called Children's Digest (complete with "book condensations" of Pinocchio, Glister's Last Stand, The Wizard of Oz, etc.) and watched its circulation...
...Jenny," retorted Mrs. Hecht, denying everything, "is a lady." The other actors, she suggested, were jealous because the critics had raved about Jenny's fine performance (as indeed they had: ". . . absolutely captivating . . . more terrifying than the child monster in The Children's Hour . . ."), and were waging psychological warfare against her. In one scene, Stevens has to carry Jenny onstage through a fire door; Mrs. Hecht feared that "if we didn't tell her to duck, she would have her head bashed in." She pleaded with Stevens: "Why don't you try to charm Jenny...
Added Mrs. Hecht: Actress Cummings, in her turn, once "kicked a hole in Jenny's dress while she was in it." Worse, Jenny was deprived of her solo curtain call. She consoled herself with the thought that "for every person who hates me backstage, there are 30 people out there who love me." For the rest, she calmed her nerves by reading Chekhov...
First Representative: Miss Hecht, charges have been preferred against...