Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...introduced to the Prince by Oscar Wilde at a London garden party, who called them "the two most beautiful per sons at the party." Died. General John Milton Claypool, 98, unreconstructed Confederate, twice national commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans; of pneumonia; in St. Louis. Once, reluctantly agreeing to attend a Union-Confederate reunion at Gettysburg, he magnanimously conceded: "Since the Lord has put up with the Yankees all this time, I guess...
Sitting pretty on Broadway was Play wright John van Druten, with two smash hits (The Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama}. Sitting prettier were Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, with two smash musicals (Oklahoma!, Carousel)-and the producers' haul from Mama. On a seesaw were Broadway's two gaudiest impresarios: Mike Todd aground, his pockets heavy from Up in Central Park] Billy Rose aloft, his pockets light from The Seven Lively Arts. Still spry, Life With Father beat the record of Abie's Irish Rose (2,327 performances), had only Tobacco Road...
...with gilt tassel." He became the best-hated man on the campus. He wrote plays with such titles as Mabel, the Beautiful Shopgirl, and played the feminine leads himself. Sex-obsessed, he sat up nights reading Krafft-Ebing and Havelock Ellis, poring over accounts of the trial of Oscar Wilde. He fought every boy in sight, bought a .45-caliber revolver and talked sullenly of suicide. "It may well be," says Biographer Adams mildly, "that he was still in some confusion about himself...
Wells called it "a brilliantly successful attempt to put real news into the newsreel"- David Selznick recognized it as "the most significant development since the invention of sound"-and just two years later MARCH OF TIME won Hollywood's coveted "Oscar" for "revolutionizing the newsreel." The MARCH OF TIME has been developing constantly since those early films, and today it requires a staff of close to 100 specially-trained technicians. Head man is Producer Richard de Rochemont, who headed its operations in Europe for nine years and covered the early battles of the war firsthand for TIME & LIFE...
...cropper in the private lives of most of its British disciples. Unlike their more adaptable, more original French contemporaries, who made Paris the authentic, though wicked, art center of the world, the Britons founded no school. They simply faded out in the squalid romanticism of the "Naughty Nineties." Oscar Wilde's brilliant career came to a catastrophic end in the world's most sensational vice trial. Poet Francis Thompson, an opium addict, was reduced to destitution, and died leaving behind his minor masterpiece of repentant self-martyrdom, The Hound of Heaven. Poet James Thomson (The City of Dreadful...