Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yarn it spins out, in a thin, reedy voice, is the one about the lamb fallen among wolves: innocent, upright French Schoolmaster Topaze (nicely played by Oscar Karlweis) is used as a dupe by a high-class swindler and his very French mistress. But after a while Topaze begins to get the hang of things. Inevitably, he also gets the very French lady...
Even before Sun acted, Acting Interior Secretary Oscar L. Chapman had called for price control and rationing of oil, along with coal. Socony-Vacuum was already rationing its East Coast dealers, and last week Standard Oil of Kentucky did the same for its 3,000 Alabama dealers. But the industry was still on the price spot...
...early spring French Ambassador to Washington Henri Bonnet and Oscar Lange, Polish U.N. delegate, will speak in public meetings of the Laboratory...
Penance. That same evening, some of the high Laborites saw the cinema première of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, a play about a British official who had sold a Cabinet secret to a stockbroker. For Dalton, unlike Sir Robert Chiltern of Wilde's play, there was no happy ending-at least not immediately. His old rival, Sir Stafford Cripps, became, in addition to his other duties, Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...agony column" of the London Times asked for anybody who had seen the premiere of Oscar Wilde's play, An Ideal Husband, in 1895. A few dozen oldsters who responded got tickets to another premiere of An Ideal Husband, this time a movie starring Paulette Goddard and Hugh Williams. With this hoary pressagent's trick, Sir Alexander Korda helped beat the drums for his return to moviemaking-and the showing this week of the first movie in three years bearing his name. Tall, silver-haired, and at 54 none the worse for 29 hectic years in the international...