Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South Pacific (music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd; book adapted from James A. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific by Mr. Hammerstein & Joshua Logan; produced by the Messrs. Rodgers & Hammerstein in association with Leland Hayward & Mr. Logan) opened to an advance sale of $500,000 and the kind of notices ("utterly captivating"-"truly great") that should keep it on Broadway for years. As an all-star production, it almost merits such notices. As a show, it does...
Legislation to enforce fair educational practices in Massachusetts' schools and colleges is unnecessary, unworkable, and "would put an intolerable burden on universities' admissions offices," Oscar M. Shaw '26, Counsel for the Corporation, told the General Court's Education Committee yesterday on behalf of Harvard University...
After a flurry of protestations and denials in Hollywood, the Eastern home offices of the five big studios (MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros., 20th Century-Fox, RKO Radio) put out a confirmation and a pious explanation. Their decision to let Oscar fend for himself, they said, was not "commercialistic," but "in the interests of less commercialization . . . The companies should not be in the position where they can be accused of subsidizing an artistic and cultural forum. In fact, they so have been accused often in the past...
Withdrawal of support did not mean that the studios would stop lobbying for their own pictures. And, as Hersholt quickly pointed out, an Oscar was not just an artistic laurel but a box-office lure as well. At week's end, apparently reconciled to the latest twist of the tightened Hollywood economy, the academy's board of governors decided that the money would have to be scraped up somewhere else, but the Oscars would carry...
...20th Century-Fox) features a group of talented actors pretending unsuccessfully to be characters in a play by Oscar Wilde. At its original best, 57 years ago, Lady Windermere's Fan was little more than a stylish vehicle for Wilde's wicked quips and epigrams. At its 20th Century movie worst, it emerges as a sentimental woman's drama-a sort of Stella Dallas in turn-of-the-century stays...