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Word: pit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the show's run, hardworking, hard-cussing Actress Hutton spared her fellow performers no more than she spared herself. She thrashed about so violently that once she catapulted off the stage and onto a drummer in the orchestra pit. In a number that required her to maul Keenan Wynn, she once toed him into a dead faint, forced him to take to protective padding. Among her later victims: Bob Hope, whose teeth caps she sent scattering over a soundstage floor during a bit of jujitsu; Cinemactor Frank Faylen, whom she knocked out with a right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Side of Happiness | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Samuel V. K. Wilson '50 will stage and direct the operetta for the second successive year, and Roger W. Jeliffe '50 has designed the sets and lighting. On stage and pit choruses of Puritans and Radcliffe girls will add their voices to the soloists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop to Stage 'Pinafore' Tonight | 4/14/1950 | See Source »

...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). The Snake Pit; with Olivia de Havilland and Mark Stevens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Apr. 10, 1950 | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...discovered ore deposits of higher iron content than Mesabi's; it planned to spend at least $200 million mining the ore and shipping it to its U.S. plants. Bethlehem Steel Corp. was also at work in Venezuela. By spending some $50 million on its El Pao open-pit mine, which has reserves of at least 60 million tons, Bethlehem hoped to be ready in late 1951 to ship out about 2,400,000 tons a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Needed: An Open Door | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...Chicago Opera Co., which had commissioned the work, just couldn't make it come off. It was a silly story-about a morose young prince who, under the spell of a witch, falls in love with three oranges. And both on the stage and in the pit, it seemed to be continually poking grand opera in the ribs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Three Oranges | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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