Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Gallup poll reported that the U.S. people were agreed (by a 5-to-1 majority) that it was a "good thing" rather than a "bad thing" to have this information available. But how good was the information? And was its popular acclaim a healthy sign? Almost unheard amid the general hubbub, a few expert faultfinders began to ask these questions...
...promises had paid off. In their first local warm-up for the national elections on April 18, the month-old Socialist-Communist "Popular Democratic Front" elected 21 (eleven of them Communists) to the 40-man municipal council. The Socialist-Communist share of the vote had jumped from...
...distinguishing feature of movies and popular songs...
...Bernard Shaw; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers, in association with Brian Doherty) gave Broadway its first view of Dublin's Gate Theatre. Founded 20 years ago by Actors Hilton Edwards and Micheal MacLiammóir, who are still its heads and headliners, the Gate has grown more popular in Dublin as the once-great Abbey Theatre has grown less so. Though in Manhattan it will offer only Irish plays, in Dublin (unlike the Abbey) it features foreign ones; it has produced the works of O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson, Kaufman & Hart, engaged such U.S. actors as Burgess Meredith...
...Double Life (Universal-International). By popular tradition, all good actors "live" their parts.* Matinee Idol Anthony John (Ronald Colman) loses himself in his roles more thoroughly than most. Fortunately, he never plays Macbeth; it's dangerous enough when he becomes Othello...