Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) and Northwest Outpost (1947), were box-office flops. "The movie people told me that the cycle of light romantic operas was at an end," he says. "The war had made people want realism." Nevertheless, he felt that Naughty Marietta, his first of nine films with Jeanette MacDonald, had the right formula. "We should have made more obvious sequels to that one-such as Son of Naughty Marietta...
Oldtime Cinema Soprano Jeanette (Naughty Marietta) MacDonald, after finishing up the concert season with recitals in some of the tonier Las Vegas gambling casinos, received an honorary Mus.D. degree from New York's Ithaca College for her "many contributions to the field of music...
...C.I.O. steelworkers are bucking for a wage boost. Said Republic Steel's President Charles M. White: "Where we might have talked [the union] out of something, [they] might now be a little harder to talk to." White was right. Reuther's old political opponent, Steelworker President Dave MacDonald, was sure to push for a wage boost to equal the autoworkers' gains. In terms of cents per hour, union officials figured the pensions and benefits equaled about a dime-though many steelmen were now balking at any raise. In short, the steel negotiations, which opened on a note...
...seat. He joined the Labor Party, got back in the House of Commons, where he served with fidelity to his party but without any great distinction, except that he had one of the most mellifluous speaking voices in British public life. Attorney General under Labor's Ramsay MacDonald, Solicitor General in Churchill's wartime coalition government, he was finally named Lord Chancellor when Labor came to power in 1945, as a reward for party service...
Unfortunately the men in the production do not meet this standard. Arthur Townsend, in a brief appearance, plays as a fop a role which would be more effective done stolidly. And Pirio Macdonald Tutchings, as Catherine's lover, has a good stage voice, but such unconvincing gestures and lack of dash that his performance is negative. As Catherine's father, however, Edward Golden is the exception. He is sarcastic, cruel, and kind as the part demands and yet has developed these contrasting elements into a consistent character...