Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the last campaign Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg created a stir on the air waves by playing recordings of Franklin Roosevelt's pronouncements, rebutting them sharply as they scratched along. Squelched during this campaign will be little playlet parables against the New Deal. No more will Romeo tell Juliet that he cannot marry her because the WPA has bounced him for being a Republican. Agreeing that such tricks are unfair and unseemly, the National Association of Broadcasters last week voted to restrict political broadcasts to speeches, interviews, bona fide rallies...
...Biggest disappointment: Vivien Leigh & Laurence Olivier's Romeo and Juliet...
Schnozzle Durante rushes about the stage much as usual, like a worried tornado; he works harder than any other comedian, except possibly Ed Wynn. He makes a most unorthodox-looking Romeo, whose wooing of Juliet (Ilka Chase) is more like a bombardment than a courtship. In the loudest clothes ever worn by a white man, he cuts loose with a song called A Fugitive from Esquire. As a harassed guide, he attempts to conduct some hooligans through the ''Modernist Room" of the Metropolitan Museum. As a harassed tree surgeon he takes the temperature and sap-pressure...
...Romeo and Juliet (by William Shakespeare; produced by Laurence Olivier). Since Sothern & Marlowe, no pair of actors has undertaken Romeo and Juliet with more of an aura about them than Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Last year Olivier emerged as a great romantic lover in the movie version of Wuthering Heights, and Miss Leigh, at the moment, is the most talked-of cinemactress in the world. Both are young, extremely good-looking, and they themselves are in love...
...They cannot marry until their divorce decrees become final.) But last week one of the most glittering first-night audiences in Manhattan's history saw a production of Romeo and Juliet that was not merely weak or spotty, but calamitous. They saw a Juliet who looked like a poem, but had no sense of poetry, a Romeo who made a handsome lover, but talked as though he was brushing his teeth, conducted his courtship as though he was D'Artagnan. They saw fear and grief portrayed by belly-writhings and animal howls. They saw Olivier, in the first...