Word: levante
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...hand as moderator, as in the old radio days, was urbane, acid Clifton Fadiman. Sitting on the panel were the old experts, John Kieran and Franklin P. Adams, and, as guest member of the panel, Author James (South Pacific) Michener (missing: wiseacre Pianist Oscar Levant, who now lives in California). After the familiar cockcrow and the challenge to "Wake up, America, time to stump the experts!" Video Veteran Fadiman (CBS's This Is Show Business) tried hard to settle his team into the old fluid pace of the radio series...
...other hand, Singin' in the Rain's Donald O'Connor is certainly a more effective comedian than was Oscar Levant, its vaudeville hoofing routines are more frequent and just as well performed as America's, and its plot contain some pointed and amusing satire on the Hollywood...
...coup had been smoothly engineered by France's new Resident General in Tunisia, Jean Marie François de Haute-cloque, an idealistic onetime soldier and longtime diplomat, who, as a French representative in the Levant, saw France lose Syria and Lebanon in the dark days of World War II. In Tunisia, since the bloody riots last January, he had seen sabotage flicker over the country like heat lightning. Eleven post offices, seven bridges, 15 trains, 646 telephone poles had been blown up. Every time De Haute-cloque tried for a man-to-man interview with Sidi Mohammed...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, Pianist Oscar Levant...
...captures the spirit of a Parisian fairyland, making it a fit background for the dream sequences which form the best part of the film. These sequences are a necessary mechanism in a film which must make use of the varied talents of Gene Kelly, George's Guitar, and Oscar Levant, and still keep the plot from being too contrived. At one point Levant dozes off, dreams that he is solo pianist in a performance of Gershwin's Concerto in F and gives a stirring recital; a recital, however which has no relevance to the plot...