Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present state, La Ronde is neither as daring as publicity would indicate, nor as funny. Its ingenious sets of Vienna in 1900, however, plus Oscar Strauss' waltz "Love Makes the World Go Round" add a romantic flavor to the film, and Schnitzler's carnival of love emerges pleasantly, if not spectacularly...
...selection of Patience was a fortunate choice, for although the Sullivan music is not so easily remembered, Gilbert's libretto is one of his most amusing. Abandoning the broader styles of Pinafore, Gilbert chose to satirize the aesthetes of the 1880's, characterized best by Oscar Wilde and his inevitable vest-pocket lily. With a sophisticated and satiric type of humor, the opera affords opportunities, if well handled, for superb comedy...
...official of the Massachusetts Division of Immigration and Americanization--a counseling group not connected with the federal immigration service--advocates several specific recommendations for students: clarify the implications of exchange status to "visitors"; make it easier for regular foreign students to readjust under the quota system. Indeed, according to Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History, the "whole quota system is unreasonable." Such requirements as the double quota need of section 245 "impose needless hardship on students," he feels...
Motorola TV Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Oscar Homolka and Lisa Kirk co-star in Love Song...
...best of them in Count Basie Big Band, one of the two or three full-size bands that still remember how to play with true jazz feeling, and the Lionel Hampton Quartet, in four long selections (including a razzle-dazzle chase chorus between Hampton's vibraharp and Oscar Peterson's piano). Columbia reels off a big jam session that includes a dizzying 63 choruses of The Huckle-Buck, played by Trumpeter Buck Clayton & Co. Pacific Jazz features the original inventions of the Russ Freeman Trio. Discovery has the bleep-bloop piano playing of Beryl Booker with her trio...