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...their crop to absentee landlords, and the rest often goes to local loan sharks. By granting free tariffs to Philippine producers of sugar, lumber and hemp, the U.S. reinforced a backward primary-product economy; today, a major irritant between Washington and Manila is the Laurel-Langley Trade Agreement of 1956, which perpetuates that error. Still, when the date came for Philippine independence, the U.S. kept its word. On July 4, 1946, for better or worse, the philophilic strains of the Filipino national anthem rang out over war-battered Luneta Park, and the child of America's great experiment walked free...
...comedy series on the air. Dressed up now and then with music and dancing, the adventures of gullible Brooklyn Bus Driver Ralph Kramden (Gleason) and goofy Sewer Worker Ed Norton (Art Carney) rock with a screwball spontaneity that puts the team in a class with the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy. At the same time, they are never so far out that the audience has the slightest trouble identifying them as a couple of ordinary likable slobs. "This is a nudge act," explains Gleason. "Somebody's always out there in the audience nudging his partner, saying. 'There...
After studying music at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory, Lillian Smith taught for three years in a Methodist missionary school in China, returning to take over Laurel Falls Camp when her father died. Southern bluebloods scrambled to send her their daughters, and she used earnings from the camp to launch a magazine on Southern affairs, which had burgeoned to 100 pages with a subscription list of more than 10,000 when she abandoned it in 1946 for full-time writing. She followed Strange Fruit with Killers of the Dream (1949) and The Journey (1954), non-fiction works in which...
...course, the American Guild of Variety Artists estimates that 40% of its members got their start on the Amateur Hour. Some of the richest of them flunked their first test. One night 81 years ago, the audience awarded first prize to a South American who played the laurel leaf, while voting down another contestant, Ann-Margret. And in 1953, a swivel-hipped lad named Elvis Presley didn't get past the first audition...
...found in him. And the trombone glissandi that accompany his tipsy entrance are a tasteless crudity that should be returned to the vaudeville hall whence they came. Sir Andrew's lines project well from James Valentine's slim physique; and there is a good deal of Stan Laurel in this droll performance. But how could a director be so derelict as to let Toby's suggestion, "Now let's have a catch," elicit at once Andrew's comment, "By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast," with nary so much as one phrase of a catch sung between...