Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Play Your Hunch (NBC) pits a pair of husband-and-wife teams against each other in an outright guessing game. The brain twisters include such pithy problems as which of three baby pictures is that of Jayne Mansfield, or who of three turbaned men is bald. Televiewers who play the right hunch will soon guess which knob is marked...
With his budget-bloating Porgy and Bess in suspended production because of a studio fire (TIME, July 14), Cinemogul Sam Goldwyn decided to fire Director Rouben Mamoulian.Reason: "Differences of opinion." "I have the greatest respect for Rouben Mamoulian," said Sam, "but . . ." Said Mamoulian, who directed both the original play and the original musical: "Mr. Goldwyn's bland statement hides a story of deceit and calumny. In a suit which I propose to file, it will be necessary at long last to expose his publicity greed, his professional hypocrisy and selfishness." Mamoulian's examples: Goldwyn insisted that...
...convinced that the best possible vaccine against paralytic polio would be one containing live virus -it is cheaper to give, easier to take (by mouth) and should be more potent. But U.S. health authorities are fearful that some virus might prove to be not only live but virulent. They play it safe with the Salk vaccine, in which the virus is killed with formaldehyde. Now, from darkest Africa, comes the report of a trial in which a quarter-million people have been given a live-virus vaccine made in the U.S. It appears to have been completely safe, almost...
...that once promising baby, television, moves straight from infancy into senility," adds TV Writer Dale Wasserman, the writers themselves must bear the brunt of the blame. "Sometimes I dream of a truly controversial play-oh, say, one in defense of intolerance. A fine case could be, made. Think of the fun of galvanizing the sleepy, postprandial audience, goading it into sitting up and saying: 'What? What was that?' But this demands extraordinary effort. Thinking takes work . . . Thus the quick-and-lucrative looks better every...
...play the guitar. Just turn the dial and strum. No fingering necessary . . . You can go on TV with your own guitar and your own entertainment." This invitation to the arts is part of an advertisement for the Dial-A-Chord, a $12 gadget that enables a fledgling guitarist to change chords at the flick of a plastic wheel and presumably to toss off a habanera at first strumming. Music merchants on their way home last week from their annual convention in Chicago went armed with dozens of such labor-saving and interest-killing devices designed to hook some...