Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week. What followed was enough to give any big-league manager chills & fever. No exceptions were Chicago's banjo-strumming Charlie ("Jolly Cholly") Grimm and Detroit's pug-nosed Irishman, Steve O'Neill. And what went for them went for their wives: plump, chestnut-haired Lillian Lyle Grimm and dark, buxom Mary Boland O'Neill...
...then WWJ has been scoring radio firsts right & left. It claims to have broadcast the first play-by-play accounts of baseball and football games, World Series game (1920), prize fight, full symphony concert (with Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the Detroit Symphony). Walter Hampden, Fanny Brice, Fred Waring, Ty Cobb, Lillian Gish and Thomas E. Dewey (singing with an Owosso church choir) made their radio debuts over...
Academically, the label "journalese" can become harsh criticism. But what Lillian helm and does in "The Searching Wind" and what Edward Chodorov does in "Decision" if then made good propaganda and poor theatre. For the same reason that a newspaper editorialist and make facts and figures more palatable than a Congressional committee report, talk, by accenting the personal, can make the social issue of race discrimination more acceptable to the requirements of the stage...
...general tone in the theater was gay: still screening rather than mirroring the war, Broadway clicked with only one world-minded play, A Bell for Adano. One possible reason was the silence of the better serious dramatists-Robert E. Sherwood, Lillian Hellman, Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Clifford Odets, Elmer Rice. There was no good melodrama, either...
Where, they asked her, had she been so mistreated? Elizabeth's answer horrified the neighbors, soon piqued the curiosity of all London. Nearly 200 years later it attracted the attention of Lillian de la Torre, a student of 18th-Century English history. The result of Student De la Torre's gleanings in many libraries is a fascinating slice of picaresque history...