Word: lux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lux Radio Theater
...Lux Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m. CBS). Walter Pidgeon in The People Against O'Hara...
...Anna (Lux Film; I.F.E.) is an Italian-made melodrama that bears a striking resemblance to a slick U.S. thriller. An alluring nightclub singer (Silvana Mangano) is torn between true love for an honest farmer (Raf Vallone) and sordid passion for a shady bartender (Vittorio Gassman). When Vallone kills Gassman in a hand-to-hand encounter, Silvana renounces the world and becomes a lay sister at a hospital. At this point, just when it appears that the movie is running out of plot, Vallone is seriously injured in an automobile accident and is wheeled into Silvana's hospital...
...Last week the Guild gave its 300th radio performance: a typically smooth and professional playing of Shaw's Man and Superman, starring Deborah Kerr and Maurice Evans. As executive director of the radio Guild, fiftyish Armina Marshall concentrates on "bringing the theater into U.S. homes." Unlike the Lux Radio Theater, which broadcasts dramatizations of movies, the Guild usually draws on Broadway ("The only movies we ever do are classics like All About Eve and The Lost Weekend...
...Brunswick issues and the chance they offered speculators to strike it rich caused an even greater flurry of excitement. Typical of the rampaging success of these issues was Porcupine Peninsular, a little-known company with holdings in northern Ontario. When the exchange's Trans-Lux screen flashed word that Porcupine had bought 34 claims near the Bathurst find, shares jumped from 4? to 19?. In one week, Porcupine alone accounted for the trading of 7,057,900 shares...