Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sinkwich was injured. He knew that Hughes succeeded Taft as Chief Justice. He recited from Byron's Maid of Athens, Burns's Tarn o'Shanter and Moore's The Time I've Lost in Wooing. He sang I Surrender, Dear and Dixie, until snippety Oscar Levant gasped: "From now on call me The Pretender." Neither Levant nor John Kieran nor Franklin P. Adams had a lookin. Everyone agreed that he was wonderful...
...object lesson in natural casting for American producers. Marins Goring, Roger Livesey, and Raymond Massey are other highlights of a cast entirely above reproach. Hollywood was well advised to exclude foreign productions from the Academy Award competition; if "Stairway to Heaven" is a fair example, they'd lose the Oscar for keeps...
Next to modern escapist drama, voters signified a desire for modern tragedy, as Eugene O'Nell placed third in the playwright preferences of the interviewees. Behind O'Nell followed Noel C. Coward, Henrick Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Maxwell Anderson, Clifford Odets, Anton Chekov, and Thornton Wilder. stated, "There was an almost intense monotony of response, which may perhaps be indicative of the stereotyped taste pattern of American audiences in general, and more particularly a definite escapist sentiment...
...Gave a state dinner for the Supreme Court justices; joined them in applauding the after-dinner offerings of nimble-witted Pianist Oscar Levant...
...Anthology will have to move fast, however, to keep abreast of Oscar Williams' A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry (Scribner), which appeared last June and has already sold 18,000 copies, quite a trick at the price ($3.50) in a country still supposedly shy of modern verse. Williams' arrangement is by theme, and his choices encompass most of the best poems as well as the best poets. Like "mr u," he includes his own poetry with honest liberality (nine of his to four each for Robert Bridges and Edwin Arlington Robinson...