Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Happy Birthday (by Anita Loos; produced by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) shows what a frightening assortment of drinks in a Newark ginmill did to-and for-a prim, plain-looking little librarian (Helen Hayes). On any realistic basis, abstemious Addie Bemis, loaded with pink ladies, whiskey, sloe gin and champagne, would doubtless be violently sick by 10 o'clock; but Happy Birthday is far from realistic, and by 11 o'clock gaily gyrating Addie has copped herself a husband...
Molotov's fellow delegates could hardly get used to his frequent smiles and handshakes, suspected that at times he even hovered on the brink of a backslap. Cracked he: "This is my first vacation since the Revolution." Oscar Englund, a waiter at the Waldorf, found Molotov gracious enough to give an autograph-though Englund later lost his job for his audacity. "So what?" said he. "That's history, what...
Lady Windermere's Fan (by Oscar Wilde; produced by Homer Curran in association with Russell Lewis & Howard Young) is second-rate Wilde and 54 years old. Its always trumpery plot, fitted out with soliloquies and asides, has become the quaint tosh of which burlesques are made. Its dialogue can be high-flown as well as sharp-cut, and some of its epigrams are distinctly tarnished...
Died. Princess Ebba Bernadotte, 87, onetime lady-in-waiting at the Swedish Court, morganatic wife of King Gustav's younger brother Oscar Carl August, mother of Swedish Red Cross president Count Folke Bernadotte; in Stockholm...
...audience was outspoken Robert R. Young, there to receive an "Oscar of industry" for the 1945 report of his Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. As Young rose to accept the award, he also accepted Snyder's invitation. When his speech (and the banquet) ended some four minutes later, a red-faced Mr. Snyder got up at once and angrily walked...