Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Peiping rode the crest of victory, Nanking languished in the slough of defeat. From the Nationalist capital TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin cabled...
...plugged WNEW by lavish advertising, from full-page ads in the Times to broadsides on the backs of laundry slips. Tudie launched Dinah Shore and Frank Sinatra; she discovered Martin Block, New York City's first disc jockey. But, mostly, her listeners get a 24-hour-a-day drumfire of musical recordings, commercials and news. As Tudie says, one nice thing about tuning in on WNEW is "you can leave the room and, when you come back, you've missed nothing...
...James Michener's Pulitzer-Prizewinning war yarns, South Pacific is not a musicomedy; it is a "musical play" in which story moves on equal terms with song, while dancing is shunned and spectacle virtually banished. Story means, for the most part, a romance between "Knucklehead Nellie" (Mary Martin), an appealing Navy nurse from Little Rock, Ark., and a middle-aged Pacific-island French planter (Ezio Pinza). The nurse loves the planter but almost loses him, first to her Southern prejudices when she finds he has lived openly with a native woman and sired two children, then to the hazards...
South Pacific gets a magnificently effective production. Joshua Logan has staged and stepped up the proceedings with nimble skill, while the Jo Mielziner sets never jam the flow. As the little knucklehead, Mary Martin gives the performance of her career. She merges a gift for comedy with a delightful personality; she sings well, and turns out ballads even better. As the planter, Metropolitan Opera Basso Pinza proves himself an excellent Broadway performer. He has, beyond that, the kind of voice that show business is lucky enough to acquire once or twice in a generation. The whole supporting cast is good...
Died. John Martin, 64, "Uncrowned King of South Africa" for three decades; after long illness; in Johannesburg. Martin managed the Argus newspaper chain (15 dailies, 13 weeklies), headed famed "Corner House," which controlled 16 gold mines and had a hand in a dozen more...