Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he isn't mugging in public, Red Ingle assures everyone he knows that his one ambition is to get out of the band business. He tried retiring in 1942 by going into the CAA. A year later, Spike Jones lured him away with a job ("I did the...
Judging by the new play at the Copley this week, Ruth Gordon, the actress, should get herself a new playwright. And, at the same time, Ruth Gordon, the playwright, should put away her copy of Arthur Wing Pinero or Henry Arthur Jones and accept the report that Belasco is dead...
"Tell them," exclaims Denmark Vesey, the Emperor Jones in face of his imminent downfall, "tell them Denmark Vesey says 'the Day will come.'" Forty years later, the Day did come.
Dorothy Heyward has taken the "Emperor Jones" theme of a man who lets his lust for personal power overcome his honest conviction that he is sent from God to set his people free, and turned it into a more familiar setting, with interesting if not startling, results. Behind its exterior...
Young Pancho, one of seven kids of a Hollywood studio painter, has been playing tennis since 1941, when his mother gave him a 51? racket for Christmas. School never interested him much ("If it was a warm day and the fellows said 'Let's go to the beach...