Word: idol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...control of what he's doing. He has the power of total camouflage, like a dweller in the third day of creation." A moviemaker sighed last week: "I thought I'd seen everything, but it looks as if we've got a genius for a matinee idol...
Died. Bert Lytell, 69, for 66 years an actor in the theater, radio, cinema and TV; after an operation; in Manhattan. A matinee idol of silent films (The Lone Wolf, Alias Jimmy Valentine), he moved smoothly from leading man to character roles on Broadway (Lady in the Dark), served as president of Actors' Equity for seven years...
...walls, Jefferson retreated to the ages, President Soekarno began to bald, and Indonesia (which never had an election or ratified its constitution) began to splinter. Last week, upon Indonesia's bright-eyed women still fighting for monogamy, fell the crudest blow of all. They learned that their idol, President Soekarno, had secretly taken a second wife...
...blue-chip cast, all old pros, managed to brush away much of Royal Family's dust. Fredric March, who played Tony, the skirt-chasing screen idol, in both Hollywood and Broadway versions, roared and pranced through the TV adaptation with his old gusto. Helen Hayes, as the family's irascible matriarch, and Claudette Colbert, as the harassed heroine, played warmly and well, supported by the harrumphs of Charles Coburn as the family manager. As a play, Royal Family was not the best starter for a prestige builder. The madcap antics, the entrances and exits tended to jumble...
...with the dependability of swallows zooming into Capistrano. Soon due are such talented warblers as Vaughn Monroe, Dinah Shore, Jo Stafford, Martha Wright and Jane Froman. Eddie Fisher sang four songs, worked in a little quick sell for his sponsor (Coca-Cola), and on ballads, unashamedly imitated his idol, Perry Como...