Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oscar Hammerstein II, librettist LL.D...
...Rose Tattoo. Anna Magnani, in her first Hollywood film and Oscar-winning role, serves up Tennessee Williams' comi-tragedy as a wonderful pizza-pie farce-and the spectator gets it smack in the eye (TIME...
...Birthday of the Infanta, by Ron Nelson, 29, graduate student at Rochester's Eastman School of Music, and composer of promotional-film sound tracks. Following Oscar Wilde's story, a dwarf falls in love with a Spanish princess and persuades her to set up her throne in the forest. The scheme is frustrated by the captain of the guard, and tragedy closes in. The music reminded listeners of both Puccini and Menotti, and suggested that Birthday will have many happy returns...
...Saturday Review), caricaturist and satirist (Zuleika Dobson), last of the Victorian elegants; in Rapallo, Italy. One of literature's most modest, sparing and delicate talents, "the incomparable Max," as Shaw called him, belonged to an age of posturing geniuses and aesthetes (Burne-Jones, the Rossettis, Swinburne, Whistler, Oscar Wilde), was one of them but not one with them. With a few deft strokes of his caricaturist's drawing pen, he could put the lucubrations of a giant into gnat's perspective and keep the world itself in polite proportion. Wilde once remarked that he possessed the rare...
...Rose Tattoo. Anna Magnani, in her first Hollywood film and Oscar-winning role, serves up Tennessee Williams' comi-tragedy as a wonderful pizza-pie farce-and the spectator gets it smack in the eye (TIME...