Word: kliegs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first blackout has made the great difference. Darkness fell impartially upon all, the Shirley Temples and the Sadie Smiths, Dietrichs and Doakeses.... Groups gathered at street corners to reprimand motorists who drove with lights. In the quiet of almost absolute night, this city of klieg lights and neon signs found a new beauty in starlight...
...popular misconception holds that he was a rootin', tootin' cowboy who suddenly gawked into the klieg lights. This is not strictly true. Although he is at home there, the range was never his profession. His father, Charles Henry Cooper, was a lawyer of Bedfordshire, England, who in 1886 moved to the U. S. and the raucous gold town of Helena, Mont. There he married a local girl, acquired a small cattle ranch, but spent most of his time at law and politics which eventually brought him a justiceship of the Montana Supreme Court...
...Love, Klieg-lighted and aromatic, came to television last week. In Los Angeles, over the Don Lee video network, 26-year-old William Vincent Hazen took Marian Padelford, 19, to be his lawful wedded wife. A dental technician, Bridegroom Hazen planned to celebrate his marriage vows with a script of his own devising. It included such dialogue as "My future plans are of educating the public in the immense perennial humanitarian program that the dental profession has mapped out for those who will but come to its portals. All of which bounteously builds up to better dentistry for better living...
...Lincoln's gaunt figure has stepped out of the homey precincts of the stage and exposed itself to the glamor of inquisitive Klieg lights. But it has forfeited none of its earthy humanity; its shady sides have not been glossed over by a halo of legend and heroism. A classic of the modern American stage, Robert Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" has now become a classic of American moviedom...
When Hollywood laid its golden fingers upon Mr. Steinbeck, the great realist and his following sadly shook their heads. You couldn't expect to reproduce Toilers of the Land in the gloss of Klieg lights. Agricultural proletarians on a budget of a few hundred dollars a day simply wouldn't look human. There were limits even to what Hollywood could...