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...members) sued Radio Audizioni Italiane, the government-controlled monopoly which runs Italian radio, demanding relief either from the commercials or the tax. The association's lawyers brought with them a recording of one day's output of commercials. Samples: a Baby Snooks-like voice whining: "Mama! I want my little cheese!", sounds of hacking coughs, throat clearing and spitting (which a cold-cure advertiser broadcasts during mealtime). The court refused to listen. Said one harried judge: "You could hardly expect us to do that...
Oogie Oogie Wa Wa (Debbie Reynolds; M-G-M). According to Tin Pan Alley linguists, the title is Eskimo for "I want a mama." A fast-tempo piece of foolishness, well sung...
After the death last month of his good friend, Actress Mady (/ Remember Mama) Christians, Playwright Elmer Rice fired off an angry letter to the New York Times, charging that she had been hounded to her grave by Red-baiters. Last week, Rice lashed out with another letter on the same theme. But this time he went further than angry words. He resigned from the Playwrights' TV Theater, a group of top dramatists (Robert Sherwood, Maxwell Anderson, Eugene O'Neill, et al.) whose works are being performed on, ABC-TV's Celanese Theater...
Died. Mady (Marguerita Maria) Christians, 49, one of Broadway's leading old-school actresses (I Remember Mama; Watch on the Rhine) ; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Norwalk, Conn. Born in Vienna, she first walked on stage at 16 in her father's German theater in Manhattan, returned to Germany to study with Starmaker Max Reinhardt, made scores of European films. After a brief marriage to a Hamburg editor, she came to the U.S. again in 1931, played roles ranging from Hamlet's mother to William Powell's screen mistress...
With the help of such come-ons, U.S. toy sellers hope to push sales well over half-billion mark this year, the highest ever. Among the huge assortment of new and ingenious toys are dolls that speak Spanish and French, dolls that say "Mama" when tilted one way and "Papa" when tilted the other, dolls that clap their hands, suck their thumbs, wet their pants ; dolls that sleep, smile or screw up their faces and bawl ("Hedy the Three-Faced Doll"). There are miniature race horses called "Phony Ponies," which are powered by Mexican jumping beans, cows that...