Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fred Allen (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Guest: Oscar Levant...
...children's beloved Peter Rabbit. Charles Dickens, by Dame Una Pope-Hennessy, cast no light on Dickens' working manners, much on his bedside manner. Stefan Zweig's posthumous, unfinished Balzac might have said more if Zweig had lived to finish the telling. Hesketh Pearson's Oscar Wilde was a sober, intelligent study of a man-and type-who is rarely treated with either sobriety or intelligence. Three literary autobiographies rated notice: Communist Playwright Sean 0'Casey's Drums under the Window, which stirred personalities, poetry and politics into a uniquely Irish stew; Liberal Franz...
Relativity. In Otterville, 111., Cousins Oscar and Bert Dabbs, whose mothers were sisters and whose fathers were cousins, became stepbrothers when Oscar's widowed mother got married to Bert's widower father...
...partly pretentious feeling for culture, he cares only, and then half-incestuously, for his daughter Regina. His treatment of his wife, along with her knowledge of his guilty past, has made her a violent hysteric; his contempt for his sons, the power-craving Ben and the spineless Oscar, has made them bitterly hostile. The fiercest struggle is that between Ben and his father. Constantly defeated, at the moment when he seems finally beaten Ben ferrets out of his mother his father's guilty secret. Being enough to lynch his father, it is more than enough to break...
Lady Windermere's Fan. Stylish production of Oscar Wilde's half-glittering, half-gooey drawing-room comedy (TIME...