Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hillbilly singer on TV, a straight singer of musicomedy songs, the slavey wife of a jealous, roughneck husband. She is not at all a dead weight: she knows how to command attention. But it's all a little like watching someone stay on a horse rather than perform as a rider; also a little as if two famous actresses were exchanging roles, and that, to complete the joke, Ethel Merman should turn up as Hedda Gabler. With Bette Davis not pacing the show, Two's Company alternately spurts and slumps. There are such pleasant-enough Vernon Duke tunes...
Even at that, he and his associates will have to perform something like a miracle to get RKO on its feet. The studio has been losing $100,000 a week, has made one picture in the last five months, has been sued by a group of stockholders and has no movie production boss. Hughes's first move was to announce plans for five movies; his next task will be to try to persuade a big-name producer to take the job. Meanwhile, RKO's 15,000 stockholders could only hope that one of the most harrowing scripts since...
...commercial sponsors chose a Caesarean delivery for last week's program. Mrs. John Kerr, 38, wife of a sergeant stationed at Fitzsimons General Hospital, had had two babies already, both by Caesarean section. It was easy for her doctors to set the day and hour when they would perform the third...
When the young have been banished, and Melvyn Douglas, Polly Rowles and Philip Loeb perform as the husband, the wife and the bank president, the play takes on a nice aimless, bantering good humor. But things are a bit askew when a plot must go out for a walk before the play...
...weighing nine times normal, would not be capable of any action at all. With the power cut off and the rocket coasting upward, gravity would drop to zero. The men would be expected to rise from their beds of pain (not knowing which end is up) and perform navigation feats that would tax a professor of celestial mechanics. Dr. Strughold does not think they could work at peak form; they would be lucky to accomplish anything...