Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to the Theater Guild, whose two smashes, Othello and Jacobowsky, flank last season's smash-of-the-age Oklahoma! Highest acting honors were almost solidly male. In a dead heat for first place were Elliott Nugent for his superbly natural sergeant in The Voice of the Turtle, Oscar Karlweis for his delightfully rueful refugee in Jacobowsky. Best brace of actors were Paul Robeson and Jose Ferrer as an eloquent Moor and supple lago in Othello. The most engaging performance by an actress turned up in musicomedy-Mary Martin's in One Touch of Venus. Nimble performances: Elisabeth...
...Among them: Critic Walter Pach, Cellist Gerald Warburg, James Gerard (former U.S. Ambassador to Germany), Artist Constantin Ala-jalov, Correspondent William Shirer, Actress Constance Collier, Composer Howard Dietz, Actor Oscar (Jacobowsky) Karlweiss, Singer Lucrezia Bori...
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, for the Theater Guild operetta smash hit Oklahoma...
...Married. Oscar Ulysses Zerk, 65, millionaire inventor of the Zerk-Alemite lubricating system; and Adele Zerk, 20, a filing-clerk; in Kenosha, Wis. In the Caldwell, NJ. Curtiss-Wright plant, a letter signed by Mr. Zerk attracted Miss Zerk, who wrote to inquire about the similarity in names. After two months of correspondence, Mr. Zerk phoned Miss Zerk, proposed, journeyed to Caldwell, took her home to his Kenosha estate...
...fall of France-for half-satiric, half-fantastic comedy. Its comic thesis is that flight from the Nazis makes strange carfellows. A swaggering, snooty Polish colonel with "a perfect 15th-Century mind" (well played by Louis Calhern) and a rueful, humorous, clever Jewish refugee (delightfully played by Oscar Karlweis) both have to bolt from Paris on the run. The colonel cannot find a car; Jacobowsky finds one but cannot drive. Grandly tossing out Jacobowsky's luggage, the colonel condescends to take the wheel, and off they go-smack toward the Nazis in order to fetch the colonel...