Word: rolande
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Neely can't tell Stephen Leacock from Roland Young, who wrote The Flea...
...coming weeks the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis plans to begin intensive field trials of its new polio vaccine in 200 or more selected counties in the U.S. (TIME. Nov. 23). Last week Illinois health officials said that the Illinois counties so favored might have to beg off. Director Roland R. Cross of the Illinois Department of Health, acting on the recommendations of a technical advisory committee, refused to permit the trials "until further proof of the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine has been received...
...wings he calls a cast that looks as if it had been waiting there since Wycherley's last play folded. "My dear Lady Dodds" (Martita Hunt), a magnificent, antique iron doe, is followed on stage by Dr. McAdam (Miles Malleson), a lovable, bumbling country practitioner. The local "artist" (Roland Culver) is also there, and the artist's wife (Elizabeth Allan). The wife's lover (Colin Gordon), a big doublethink expert on the BBC, and the local Labor M.P. (Edward Chapman) complete the ambitious chaplain's board of experts...
...picture fails to achieve much originality, it is not because Terry Moore and the octopus don't try, or because Gilbert Roland and Robert Wagner aren't brave enough to meet an occasional shark. The film's real weakness is a script scarcely different from Hollywood's previous deep sea epics. Father Roland and son Wagner, Greek sponge fishermen off the Florida keys, discuss the dangers of their occupation and the terror the diver feels when approaching the reef. As Roland wistfully points out, a man can forget his fear when once dazzled by the beauty...
Other musicians suffered more seriously from Manhattan's newspaper strike. Among them: 66-year-old Roland Hayes, famed Negro tenor, who returned to a half-filled Carnegie Hall for his 30th anniversary concert and was greeted by a standing ovation; promising Latvian Pianist Herman Codes, 32, making his New York debut; and Negro Soprano Georgia Laster, 27, whose Town Hall recital was her prize as a winner of the Naumburg Musical Foundation contest...