Word: pits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...column is looking for a swing columnist and a theatre expert for its "From the Pit" department. So, if you'd like to chew the rag with the Count, the Duke and the rest of the aristocracy and point out Benny Goodman's latest solid records to Harvard's jazz fans, or write penetrating studies of the theatre, come in and talk it over through the team of a can of beer...
...Pidgeon agreed to play Mr. Miniver, with reservations. Before starting he sat on the set for a few days, watched Wyler shoot one apparently perfect take after another. "But on the 18th take," says Pidgeon, "I suddenly knew about Wyler. It was perfect, but it hit you in the pit of the stomach like a sudden, perfect chord of music. It made all those perfect-looking previous takes look like hell." When the picture was finished, he said: "I left the screening of Miniver trying to remember which of my scenes were in, which had been cut. For the first...
...first statistical check, by C. E. Hooper, Inc., on the network rivalry divulged: Mutual's Ryder had raced in with a listener rating of 4.8 against the Ranger's tally of 3.3. With this small triumph on record, Mutual announced that, beginning next September, it would pit Superman, "The All-American American," against Jack Armstrong, "The All-American Boy," which it loses to the Blue in August...
Much better liked than Lolly Parsons, when she started Hedda had to pit friendships and wits against the powerful inertia of Lolly's 20-year reign on Hollywood's gossip roost. Choice studio stories went first, automatically, to Lolly; actors phoned her first and eloped afterwards lest she sideswipe them ever after. In addition to her column, Hedda's schedule now includes three CBS broadcasts weekly for Sunkist Oranges over 42 stations (none in Los Angeles, which eats second-grade oranges), occasional magazine pieces, six movie shorts a year, some bit parts (latest: Reap the Wild Wind...
...performance. On the road, San Carlo's orchestra numbers only 23, the total company 100-odd. Expense-conscious Fortune Gallo once spied the orchestra's harpist strolling down the street while a Rigoletto performance was going on, angrily inquired why he was not in the pit. To the harpist's reply that Rigoletto has no harp part, Gallo mumbled, "I'm not paying a harpist to walk the streets," ordered a harp part written in. Another time, Impresario Gallo avoided the expense of through Pullmans to Toronto by sending his troupe to Scranton, Pa. on excursion...