Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shells out $6,500 for one night of Berle; the G imports Pat Suzuki, Robert Merrill, George Jessel (its smaller nightclub keeps its budget down to $2,000 for individual acts). There are some 50 hotels in the Belt, and top entertainers-Georgia Gibbs, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Martin, Red Buttons-make the rounds. Says Comedian Gene Baylos, who is spending the summer playing the Belt: "You're facing the toughest audience. They become connoisseurs, and they're very critical. Hell, they've seen everybody...
...babbling after Macbeth murders Duncan ("Macbeth does murder sleep"), the "Tomorrow and tomorrow" speech as he holds his dead wife in his arms. Actress McKenna made her Lady Macbeth warm and feminine ("I feel people should have compassion for the sinners of the world"). In the sleepwalking scene, her red hair streaming above a white, wispy gown and her hands scrubbing themselves in ghastly compulsion, Actress McKenna put on the greatest mad scene seen in the U.S. since Callas' Lucia di Lammermoor...
...tour indeed had its trials. Despite a handsome time advantage in filing-seven hours in Moscow, eleven in Novosibirsk-many dispatches missed their U.S. deadlines because of interminable, often unexplained Red-tape delays. Correspondents found that the only sure way to get copy back home was by telephone: the Associated Press held one circuit seven hours-at $3 a minute, or $1,260 worth-to assure prompt coverage of Nixon's long talk with Khrushchev at the Premier's dacha outside Moscow...
...love to have a little boy," says Trumpeter Miles Davis, "with red hair, green eyes and a black face-who plays piano like Ahmad Jamal." Trumpeter Davis is one of the more fervent admirers of the pianist whose group is currently the hottest trio in jazz. Its leader is neither red-haired nor green-eyed-but the spell he casts on his faithful followers, including many a fellow jazzman, sometimes suggests the arrival of the first Martian from outer space...
...Bishop Lord and other Methodist leaders have many times proposed political action at variance with the established national policy, such as recognition of Red China or its admittance to the United Nations. Would you disobey the directives of your religious leaders and remain loyal to the traditional American policy...