Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol grounds were redolent with the chicken being barbecued for Congressmen (among the munchers for the promotional stunt celebrating "Chicken Day" were Speaker Sam Rayburn and House Minority Leader Joe Martin). But Washington's air was not filled with the fragrance of flowers, or even of barbecued chicken. It was filled with the brickbats and broken glass that blew from the great budget fracas...
...second major flaw in the show is the misuse of the star's talents. Miss Verdon shares with such other musical comedy queens as Mary Martin and Ethel Merman that undefinable quality called stage presence, but unlike them she is not, primarily, a singer. Though she possesses a pleasant enough voice, her main ability is as a dancer, and more specifically, a comic dancer. The show offers her only one opportunity to do this sort of work, and the resulting ballet, There Ain't No Flies on Me, is the musical's best sequence...
Hammer Throw--Bailey (A), 165 ft., 4 in.; Javelin Throw--Press (H), 165 ft., 11 in.; 120-yard Hurdles--Downs (H), 15.6 sec.; 100-yard dash--Liles (H), 10.2 sec.; Mile Run--Martin (H), 4:32.4; 440-yard Run--Hildreth (H), 52.2 sec.; 220-yard low Hurdles--Downs (H), 25.7 sec.; 220-yard dash--Liles, 22.3 sec.; Discus Throw--Digman (A), 123 ft., 9 in.; 880-yard Run--Cahn (H), 2.05; Pole Vault--Halaby (H), 11 ft., 6 in.; Broad Jump--Liles (H), 21 ft., 2 in.; High Jump--Kean...
...than could immediately be seen before voters' ayes, as a second look at the ballots showed. In the winner-take-all field of 22 candidates, little-known Houston Attorney Thad Hutcheson, an Eisenhower-backed Republican, got 220,361 votes, placed third. Second, with 291,106 votes, Democratic Congressman Martin Dies, a segregationist and onetime Red hunter, whose conservatism runs so deep that he had labeled Republican Hutcheson a "federal-righter." The combined Republican and conservative-Democrat vote gave Hutcheson and Dies about half a million votes, while Liberal Yarborough got 363,834 votes, 38% of the close to million...
Marcus, brother to Titus, is created with considerable 'dignity by Arthur Lewis, as is Titus's son Lucius by John Hallowell. The empress' two lecherous sons are delightfully costumed and, most of the time, well acted. The elder, as played by James Martin, is properly Presley. Michael Kenny plays a clown, who enters twice with exquisite gayety...