Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success of this play depends largely on the abilities of the actress who plays the medium, since she must be able to speak with the voices of three women, a child, and a man. Lillian Aylward is in every way equal to her assignment, and achieves the necessary effects by altering her speech rhythms. The six supporting players, particularly Michael Linenthal as a pompous doctor and Liam Clancy as a skeptical Oxford student, also turn in fine performances...
...compounded by imitation within TV, and the industry's inability to look beyond "the ruthless law of the [rating] decimal point." Said Cunningham: "As advertising men we must be interested in all TV, not only in our own programs. We want it to be a strong, well-rounded medium. A multiplication of the same type of show, such as the present wave of singers, quizzes and westerns, can only narrow the base of TV, restrict its power and its value to the people. Anybody who buys another western, unless it is a marked creative departure from the pattern, ought...
...medium-sized poetry reading series, Ellsworth and his staff have invited Richard Wilbur, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning novel "Beautiful Changes." Wilbur, now teaching at Wellesley, was the speaker at the June meeting of Phi Beta Kappa...
What did O'Neill get out of Professor Baker's course? "Well," he told Barret Clark, "not much out of the actual class-work itself. Necessarily, most of what Baker had to teach the beginners about the theatre as a physical medium was old stuff to me. Though on one occasion Baker told me he didn't think Bound East for Cardiff (written before I entered the class) was a play at all, I respected his judgement. The plays I wrote for him were rotten... Yes, I did get a great deal from Baker--personally. He encourage me--made...
...acre tract at Santa Maria di Galeria, twelve miles northwest of Rome, the 100-kw. main transmitter, more powerful by 40 kw. than Marconi's, is equipped with 24 Telefunken directional aerials (designed to overcome variations in signal strength caused by fluctuations in the ionosphere). A second, medium-distance transmitter, able to blanket the Mediterranean basin, will replace the short-range broadcaster, but will not interfere with Rome's stations, as the old unit...