Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest was revived on Broadway fortnight ago, New York Times Critic Brooks Atkinson reviewed it as though it were a new play, wound up by suggesting that Wilde showed promise. So many readers have telephoned in to correct Atkinson's "mistake" that the Times editorially made clear that he was spoofing...
...When Oscar Sher crashed into Thomas Barrett's car in New Jersey two years ago, Barrett's nose was cut off. A policeman found it on the hood of Barrett's car, rushed it to the hospital where it was stitched back in place. But in court last fortnight, Barrett told a sad tale: his appliquéd nose had sloughed off. He had to have a new one modeled out of cartilage. Jury's award...
...Importance of Being Earnest (by Oscar Wilde; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers) is 44 years old, and looks it. In a way this is a compliment, for most farces of 44 look twice their age. In Wilde's long stage joke of what happens when one young man invents an invalid friend and another young man invents a dissolute brother, there are still pleasant stretches. Lady Bracknell, "a monster without being a myth," is still an amusing snob. Miss Prism is still a funny old maid. And Wilde is still the most brilliant epigrammatist in the modern theatre...
Crusader. Oscar Riddle was born in Cincinnati, Ind., got his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, after returning from a natural history expedition to South America's Orinoco River, was well on the way to becoming an ichthyologist when a lecture on evolution gave a new turn to his career. He went to the Carnegie Institution's station at Cold Spring Harbor in 1912 as a research associate, and, except for a Wartime sojourn in France, has stayed there ever since...
...only hobby nowadays is the propagation of biologic truth-which, says Oscar Riddle, provides man with his "just hope for grandeur and power, and happiness." No cloistered, secretive scientist, he constantly sallies forth to preach the necessity of wider understanding of biological research...