Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death against the invasion, television sets now play through lunch. These and many other signs suggest how television, with its voracious demand for stories, actors, film and filmmakers, has become the star of a new Hollywood and reduced the movies to the role of a supporting player. See TV & RADIO, The New Hollywood...
...last week along swank Rodeo Drive in California's Beverly Hills. But the most symbolic luxury item that is putting the bloom on the Hollywood boom is the mink-covered TV set ($950). TV has become the star of a new Hollywood, and the movies merely a supporting player. Items: ¶A single Hollywood TV show, NBC's daily Matinee Theater, hires 2,400 actors a year for speaking parts-50% more than the players used by Warner and Paramount combined in all their 1956 movies. The show uses as many scripts-250 a year...
When he was seven, Thomas Adrian Sands, scrawny, black-haired son of a Russian-born piano player, used to sit at the radio on a little farm near Shreveport, La. and listen to the moaning and wailing of his favorite hillbillies. "Mamma," he would cry out to Grace Sands, "it's Jimmy Davis! Mamma, it's Harmie Smith! Listen to the guitars. Oh, Mamma, if only I could have a guitar, I'd be so happy." Grace Sands went out one day and made a $10 down payment on a $65 guitar. Tommy taught himself to play...
...Indians have only one top-flight player, Dick Hoehn, son of the Dartmouth coach, and it is unlikely that he will be able to handle the Crimson's Dale Junta at the first singles spot. The rest of the matches should be fairly routine, although Dartmouth has shown strength in several of its matches...
...Angeles, Peruvian Songbird Yma Sumac, 35, exercising all the resources of her four-octave voice, starred in a choice bit of opera bouffe in three acts. Featured opposite her: her estranged husband, Moises Vivanco, 38, with a supporting cast of two Inca folk dancers, one confused harp player, three private eyes, one happy collie, a carload of cops. It began in January when Yma's husband lost a paternity suit brought by Yma's former secretary, and was declared the father of the secretary's twin girls. Yma sued for divorce. The action...