Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said he thinks there is "too much flip-flop stuff going on up in Washington." ¶Four big names in he world of arts and letters announced in New York that they were switching from Eisenhower to Stevenson. The four: Producer-Playwright George Abbott, Author Edna Ferber, Librettist-Producer Oscar Hammerstein II, Producer Irene Selznick. Two big Southern newspapers announced their choice. The Atlanta Journal, the South's largest daily (which has never supported a Republican for President), came out for Stevenson. The Charlotte News, largest evening paper in the Carolinas (which supported Tom Dewey in 1948), announced...
...biggest disappointment in Full House is The Ransom of Red Chief, where two kidnappers steal a ten-year-old terror. Fred Allen and Oscar Levant would seem ideal as the bumbling criminals; instead, both play it dead-pan, leaving Red Chief--who should be the only poker face--to grovel for the laughs...
...important personal appearance last March before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. Subject of the inquiry: her connection, for the past decade or so, with Communist-front organizations. In making the minutes public last week, the committee drew no conclusions, made no recommendations; but the session sounded as if Oscar-winning Actress Holliday was still skillfully playing the dumb blonde-this time for higher stakes. Excerpts...
Idealism kept the curtain rising at the Brattle Theatre for four years; the group of young actors who organized Brattle went into business with little else. They had a building, and they were confident that their talent and enthusiasm would bring the audiences of Irving Berlin and Oscar Hammerstein back to William Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw. They were right. But even though appreciative audiences filled their theatre, and although the group won national acclaim for its repertory, Brattle never made any money. The company sliced its salaries to subsistence and some of the members dipped into their pockets to subsidize...
Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing accused Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower yesterday of "spreading a lie by insuination" in blaming the government for extravagance. That is "typical, arogant McCarthyism," Ewing said in a statement directly challenging the Republican presidential candidate on the question of a proposed federal health insurance program...