Word: longing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This week the 104-year-old Gazette, now a pale, thin shade of its once fat and enormously profitable self, got a new girl. Unlike the heroine of Irving Berlin's hit of the '30s, she was no brunette chorus cutie to adorn its cover, but a long-legged, thirtyish blonde newshen to be its boss...
Since the Hollywood studio theater seats only 1,400 people ("We get queues as long as the Radio City Music Hall," says Keighley), only a handful of Lux's devoted audience have ever seen their idols in the flesh. To make it up to the others, CBS has distributed a brochure on the stars' "mike mannerisms" that is jam-packed with nuggety information. Samples: Bing Crosby "always rehearses with his pipe clenched between his teeth, even when singing"; Robert Cummings "reads lines from a semi-crouch, like a boxer"; Joan Crawford is a "microphone-clutcher," while Barbara Stanwyck...
...daring. Lux "broke ground in the radio field" by casting such opera stars as Lawrence Tibbett, Lily Pons and Helen Jepson in acting roles. The show boldly signed Radio Comics Jack Benny and Burns & Allen for "their first dramatic parts." And it induced Ronald Colman and Shirley Temple, "long holdouts from radio," to make their debuts...
...think I will bust TV wide open"), Wynn was onstage all but five minutes of the half-hour show, grimacing in a succession of funny hats, outlandish garments and size 13 shoes. The fluttery mannerisms, Rube Goldberg inventions and falsetto giggles were the Wynn trademarks made popular by a long succession of musical comedies (Ziegfeld Follies of 1914 and 1915, The Perfect Fool, Hooray for What...
This week, in the first top-hat event of the season, first-nighters saw England's fine company do a Russian masterpiece the way it is still done only in the Soviet Union and Covent Garden. They sat, charmed, through the complete three-act, three-hour-long Tchaikovsky-Petipa ballet The Sleeping Beauty. Few could say they had ever seen a more lavish spectacle and dancing grace on a U.S. ballet stage. It took Conductor Constant Lambert a full five minutes to get the music in motion again after the thunderous ovation for Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann...