Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whom jest had joined together, peevishness took 25 years to put asunder. In those 25 years, Gilbert & Sullivan filled the English theater with such rollick as it had scarcely known before. Pinafore, Patience, The Mikado, The Gondoliers and the rest were something new under the limelight: real comedy operas whose music, in its own fribble fashion, was better written than most of the "serious" stuff of its time, and whose plots and lines were among the cleverest on the contemporary stage. These were smash hits, and today, after more than half a century, they are fresh hits every time...
...Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin, 62, announced that he was finishing up his new movie, Limelight, the story of an aging music-hall artist, in which he is the star, producer, director, choreographer, composer, writer and orchestra conductor. The role of a ballerina he assigned to his new leading lady, 20-year-old London Actress Claire Bloom...
Last week, at 70, Max Pechstein was back in the limelight. West Berlin's Academy of Arts had invited the city's artists to a birthday reception at which the old man was presented with a box of paints ("So he can paint many more pictures") and was appointed honorary senator of the academy...
While I deplore McCarthyism, we must give him credit for giving the Jessups, Lattimores and Achesons the limelight and an opportunity of exposing themselves, perhaps not as Communists, but for certain as mere second-guessers in a game that may well be the life and death of the whole free world...
Though the brothers Taft have often differed, brother Charlie misses no opportunity to applaud brother Bob. (In 1940 Charles Taft masterminded the campaign which almost won Bob the presidential nomination.) Bob seems content to leave Charlie out of the limelight. Bob's Republican orthodoxy recently moved him to say that if Senator Joe McCarthy is nominated for re-election he would support him, but underlined: "I never take sides in a Republican primary." At the news of brother Charlie's intentions, he maintained his frigidly correct attitude. Said he: "I'm not going to take any part...