Word: robe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People), combs New York City for likely-looking characters. His scouts prowl the Bowery and Broadway, hang around fight arenas and ballparks, wander Brooklyn and Harlem slums. The people they find-including rum-soaked derelicts, strapping longshoremen, street-corner evangelists, wispy old ladies-become the actors in The Black Robe (Wed. 8:30 p.m. E.D.T., NBC-TV), highstrung Phillips Lord's first TV venture...
...Black Robe's ragtag characters shamble through a fictitious police court. Their problems range from strong-arm felonies to a housewives' quarrel over the basement washing machine. The only professional actor in the shifting cast is the judge. None of the others even try to memorize lines. Instead, they are rehearsed over & over in incidents gathered from court stenographers, judges, police reporters, detectives and the files of the Better Business Bureau. Lord encourages them to act out the basic drama in their own words...
Every regular concert goer in Cambridge has seen a big, smiling, blue-eyed, old lady take her seat in the front row at Sanders Theater and, after removing a flowered, hat, spread a pink and blue robe over her knees. She listens to the music with her hearing aid held out in front of her and applauds generously with arms outstretched. If it is a Boston Symphony concert, you will see Koussevitzky come down from the podium to shake hands with her. If she is giving the concert herself, which is probably the case, you will watch...
...Angeles, aging (70) Lloyd C. (The Robe) Douglas was finishing up what he insists will be his last novel, The Big Fisherman, and was going to have it published on his own terms: "There will be no movie, no radio broadcasts, no condensations, no serializations, and no book clubs . . . Anybody who wants this book will have to buy it from a book store." Calming down a bit, in an interview with Script Magazine, he added: "I'm just an irascible old man who has written a book and wants it to stay a book...
Lloyd C. Douglas' continuous bestseller, The Robe (about early Christians in ancient Rome), was again announced for production; Maxwell Anderson would write the script; Gregory Peck would surely play the lead. In London, Producer Anthony Havelock-Allan (Great Expectations') thought of filming the life of St. Paul. Both Greta Garbo and Lana Turner were reportedly under serious consideration for Madame Bovary...