Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...semiserious, and Watch on the Rhine wholly so. Shakespeare was a sellout when John Gielgud revived Macbeth in July. Shaw has been a hit since Vivien Leigh revived The Doctor's Dilemma in March. (Winston Churchill, a Leigh fan, has seen it twice.) John Gielgud has revived Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which is a smash, plans to revive Congreve's Restoration comedy, Love for Love, soon. Emlyn Williams will revive Turgenev's A Month in the Country, and Fay Compton opens this week in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes...
...Kentucky, won a screen test that won her a seven-year contract with Paramount. Into a movie as vocalists with jump-&-jive Bob Crosby's band went a pair of richly endowed twins (see cut): scrumptious Lee & Lynn Wilde, 18, who swore they were the grandnieces of Epigrampus Oscar Wilde. In Miami, Albert John Capone, younger brother of Scarface Al, changed his family's name to Rayola...
Next sensation broke in Paris. In 1909 Epstein was commissioned to carve a figure for Oscar Wilde's tomb. He purchased a 20-ton block of stone, spent nine months in London carving "a demon-angel, in full flight across the face of the world," transported the work to Paris. The French were even more shocked than the English. Says Author Black: "This simplified and symbolic statue was violently objected to because it possessed genitals." To the fury of Critic Remy de Gourmont, author of a famed biological theory of esthetics, puritanical Frenchmen covered the offending fact with...
Mahoney had gone to the office of kindly, rumpled Rear Admiral William Oscar Spears for a picture of the Admiral's son, lost at sea. The Admiral volunteered to call his wife about the picture, but suddenly remembered: "I'll have to call her later. She's at the Red Cross giving a blood donation...
Tone & Content. Brain of the foreign propaganda division is its planning and intelligence board in Washington-which includes an ex-foreign correspondent (the Chicago Daily News's Edgar Ansel Mowrer), an economist (James Warburg), representatives of the Army (Colonel Oscar Solbert), Navy (Captain Homer L. Grosskopf), State Department. The board's job is to sift the vast portfolio of U.S. Government information on domestic and foreign events, pass it on to the operations division in the form of directives that fix the U.S. propaganda line for each country...