Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plated Decks. In Cleveland, the Rocky River Museum announced it would rename Oscar, its pet turtle, who had laid...
Much of the radio play's rapid improvisation and kidding is lost on the screen, but enough is left to carry the story. The fable itself, as scripted by Lewis Meltzer and Oscar Saul, is given new gentleness, meaning, sadness-the journalists are tougher, the scientists more cruel and smug. The use of Art Baker to play bleating Gabriel Heatter is a master stroke. But Alexander Hall's direction, less nimble than in Here Comes Mr. Jordan, fails to make these ingredients do more than crawl about. Almost never do they get up on their good points...
...which two (I'll Be Seeing You and I'll Get By) were years old. Manhattan, the very citadel of the new, reinforced the trend to the old and romantic: one night 21,000 people, the biggest crowd in two years, crammed Lewisohn Stadium to hear Oscar Levant play George Gershwin's 1924 smash, the Rhapsody in Blue...
...cinemoths can survive it. On the notion that a terrible wheeze, properly delivered, can be even funnier than a good one, the revival of this stone-age (1919) stage farce might have turned out very well. But all the players handle its dim demi-wit as if it were Oscar Wilde epigrams...
...fortnight after the celebrated chat of Father Stanislaus Orlemanski with Joseph Stalin, the University of Chicago's Polish-born Professor Oscar Lange dropped in at the Kremlin, talked long and earnestly with the Soviet dictator. Afterwards he reported...