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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Costume Designer Paul du Pont had a perfectly clear idea of how Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow should be dressed...
Watch the Color. Designer du Pont* does not usually have to depend on a tenor to get him out of the tight squeeze he puts a soprano into. Resourcefulness is merely one of the qualities needed by the costume designer for Max Liebman's NBC-TV spectaculars. In addition, he must sometimes do the impossible. Last week's The Chocolate Soldier was Du Pont's 20th spectacular of the season. This time he had ten days, instead of the more usual five, to dress the entire company for the Oscar Straus operetta, starring Risë Stevens. That...
Designer du Pont, who looks a decade younger than his 50 years, faces his task every fortnight with the equanimity of a man who knows and loves his job. He appears at his office at 7 every morning, leaves after 7 at night. But two days before a spectacular goes on the air, he turns, up at NBC's vast Brooklyn studio at 8 a.m. for a 40-hour siege. He is equipped with a cot and icebox and, for emergencies, aspirin, Empirin, Desoxyn, phenobarbital and Dexedrine...
Emergencies are an old story to Du Pont. As a child, he sang in vaudeville with his mother. As a young man, he danced ballet. But his dancing career ended when he fell through a trap door in the Manhattan Opera House and fractured his spine. After doing the costumes for 64 Broadway shows, he went to work for Liebman on TV seven years ago at a starting salary of $50 a week (he now gets close to $500) and a costume budget per show of $250 (it now averages...
...some 73,000 of its employees in plants and laboratories across the nation last week, giant E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. made a pleasant offer: it will give 25? to every employee saving a dollar. Under the plan, similar to those of General Electric, Standard Oil (Indiana), Gulf Oil and Pure Oil, employees with two years of service can authorize payroll deductions of $12.50 to $37.50 monthly to be put into U.S. Savings Bonds, Series E, paying 3% interest. For every dollar the employee thus saves, Du Pont will contribute 25? to buy him company stock, with...