Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Lilli was making news again in England, and, with Victor, Columbia, Decca et al. catching up fast, she was about to do likewise in the U.S. Leading Britain's hit parade for the sixth week was a simple little ditty bringing the story up to date. Lyricist Tommie (Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree) Connor, who had written a set of words for an English version of the original Lilli song, had figured that most of her wartime admirers were back home with wives of their own; so, with Songsmith Johnny Reine providing matrimonial music, he had made...
John P. Marquand, now leading the bestseller list himself, took a hard look at one of 1920's bestsellers and shrugged his shoulders: "What made [F. Scott Fitzgerald's] This Side of Paradise an immediate [hit] was no doubt its ... expose of the immoralities of the younger generation . . . Unfortunately, things have progressed so far that [today] one wishes that one's own children behaved as sensibly and nicely . . ." But Paradise was still "an exceptionally brilliant piece of work...
...Hardest hit were the networks, which have poured the most money into TV and reaped the least profit. This year CBS has made $500,000 less than it did in the first half of 1948. Du Mont's books have a reddish tinge and ABC, which can least afford it, is losing most of all. NBC does not release a balance sheet, but it is no exception. Of 76 TV stations in the U.S., only six claimed to be breaking even or making money. Manhattan's WPIX, owned by the New York Daily News, dropped...
Anna Lucasta (Security Pictures; Columbia) suffers from a piece of inspired miscasting. Originally written by Philip Yordan as the story of a Pennsylvania Polish family, the play became a resounding Broadway hit five years ago after it had been adapted for an all-Negro cast by Producer Harry Wagstaff Gribble. The part of Anna, a generous, warmhearted girl gone wrong, was played by Hilda Simms, a talented actress with a superbly natural stage presence. The movie, not illogically, was based on the first script, with Yordan as producer. But Anna's earthy role was turned over to Paulette Goddard...
Slow Burn. In Toulouse, France, Georges Ramond explained to police why he had knocked down Jean Marie Fontès: Fontès had hit him first-26 years...