Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the roll call was finished, House Speaker Sam Rayburn was busy scribbling messages summoning his lieutenants to a conference. There he hammered one point: this isn't a question of a good tax bill or a bad tax bill; it's a matter of this tax bill or none at all before adjournment. For the next two days, while party fixers hustled around to put the pressure on the deviating Democrats, a House committee went through the formality of a new conference with the Senate on modifying the bill's provisions. The face-saving changes were...
...vaudeville was back at the old Palace Theater, and there was resounding applause for Judy Garland, who had brought it there. For 75 minutes on opening night Judy burned up the boards with "electric excitement," paused occasionally to wipe her brow with a bright scarf ("It isn't very ladylike, but it's very necessary"), and sang such old favorites as Somewhere, over the Rainbow and The Trolley Song. One critic predicted the show would stay a year. Wrote Critic Ward Morehouse: "I doubt if there'll be another night like it during the entire theatrical season...
...Blue Ribbons (by Sumner Locke Elliot; produced by Jay Robinson) tells the story of a spoiled, posturing ex-Hollywood child star (Jay Robinson) who is persuaded to step out of a part he isn't right for, in a play he is producing with his own movie cash. The play was expressly written for Producer Robinson after he was persuaded to step out of such a part last season. He isn't right for this one, either: he plays a farce role with quite un-comic intensity. But the play does have a certain breeziness and three talented...
...Mary Helen Fay; produced by Richard W. Krakeur) is one of those bits of fluff that are also fiends of dullness. It concerns a psychoanalyst who persuades a bird-brained wife that there is something unhealthy about her happy marriage and faithful husband. The worst thing about the play isn't that it never comes within hailing distance of satire, but that it is altogether stupefying as farce. And to the claptrap of Broadway, Movie Actors Ann Sothern and Robert Cummings add all the coyness of Hollywood...
...what "the niggers are trumping up" and when someone is accidentally knocked down on the street, rumors spread that he was attacked by a group of Negroes. At this point "The Well's" tempo speeds up with flash shots of excited crowds in different parts of the city. It isn't long before gangs of teenagers start roaming the streets and smashing windows in the colored section. As the contagion spreads, the older folks join in. Negroes are dragged from their cars and worked over, and in retaliation the Negro gangs fire a warehouse. These are brutal scenes...