Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cotton grower is Oscar Johnston, whose 50,000 acres of rich Delta soil got him $363,000 of Government benefit payments in four years. Last month Oscar Johnston was appointed special representative of CCC as a cotton idea-man. He had planned to go to South America to close the Peruvian deal; but Peru sent two able representatives* to the U.S., who signed with Claude Wickard in short order. So Oscar stayed in Washington and meditated on cotton's war and post-war worlds...
...Moon Is Down (by John Steinbeck; produced by Oscar Serlin). Primarily intended for the stage, The Moon Is Down was first rigged up as a novel (TIME, March 9), and inside five weeks sold almost half a million copies. Theoretically the tailor-made play should beat the makeshift novel all hollow; actually it can't come near it. Steinbeck's fable of how some unnamed but obviously Nazi invaders take over an unlocalized but obviously Norwegian mining town, meet with icy resistance and are themselves worn down, never really comes to life in the theater...
Walter de Havilland, 69, father of Cine-stars Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine (1941 Oscar winner), turned up in Denver with his Japanese second wife, Yoki, looking for a job. Saying that neither of his daughters would have anything to do with him because of Yoki, he added wistfully: "I guess Olivia is worth about four million dollars...
Comedian Jack Benny, to whom Comedian Bob Hope presented a special Oscar for being "sweater girl of the year" (in Charley's Aunt), got another present last week-not to be opened until autumn. Next season, Sponsor General Foods confessed, Benny will plug some other General Foods product, not the Jell-O with which he shares his present fame. Reason: JellO, being 60% sugar, may not be made nor sold in sufficient quantities to warrant the expensive exertions of Funnyman Benny, whose new two-year contract calls for a salary of $22,000 a week for 35 weeks-highest...
Fortunately for its face, Hollywood had an excellent picture (How Green Was My Valley) to fall back on, gave it the "best" Oscar. Some other Academy bests...