Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barrie) gave the theater public Helen Hayes-at popular prices-for Christmas...
...shortage: "The annual output of elementary and high-school teachers has dropped 26% since 1950, while enrollments in elementary and high schools have risen 24% and 10% respectively." ¶ Appointment of the week: Claude L. Reeves, 61, to succeed Alexander Stoddard as permanent superintendent of schools in Los Angeles. Popular and grandfatherly, Reeves got his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Southern California, joined the L.A. school system in 1921, rose to be assistant superintendent in charge of the city's 45 high schools. His chief problem: to provide 3,400 new classrooms to accommodate an anticipated...
...floor, or get married in its Shinto chapel. But the main event is the big show in the rambling, 4,000-seat theater-a rare, sukiyaki-like mixture of the Folies Bergeres, Radio City Music Hall, the Metropolitan Opera and native Kabuki. It is the Japanese teenagers' most popular musical entertainment...
...musical revues they perform have paper-thin plots that are traditional in the beginning, but undergo metamorphoses as the show wears on. Even such a popular set piece as the famed Kabuki Lion Dance gets a startling new tail twist: it starts off traditionally with a dancer in a furry, tasseled leonine head, but in the end scores of Takarazuka girls, dressed as butterflies in tight leotards and wings, abandon their fluttering and go into a high-kicking routine to rival the Rockettes...
...taste in popular music is reflected by the list of best-selling pop singles for 1954 in the trade sheet Billboard. The top ten: 1) Little Things Mean a Lot (Kitty Kallen), 2) Wanted (Perry Como), 3) Hey, There (Rosemary Clooney), 4) Sh-Boom (Crew Cuts), 5) Make Love to Me (Jo Stafford), 6) Oh! My Papa (Eddie Fisher), 7) I Get So Lonely (Four Knights), 8) Three Coins in the Fountain (Four Aces), 9) Secret Love (Doris Day), 10) Hernando's Hideaway (Archie Bleyer...