Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lady in the Dark Album (Decca). Sibilant Hildegarde sings the Gertrude Lawrence part of the Hart-Gershwin-Weill musical. In the main, German Composer Kurt Weill has a baboo approach to U. S. musical idiom, e.g., Saga of Jenny, My Ship, This Is New. Good enough for anyone's piano is One Life To Live...
This week, with the help of Collaborator Edward Anthony, Schechter recounts in an anecdotal history the saga of his eight years as newschief for NBC. Entitled I Live on Air,† his masterwork is sometimes lively, sometimes arch, in describing strange doings that range from wiring the pyramids in Egypt for sound to putting on a contest among singing mice. Many are the bad aerial breaks that he recalls. After an announcement of the Macon crash, while listeners were waiting frantically to find out how many had been killed, Ben Bernie cut loose with a number that ran: "Take...
Western Union (20th Century-Fox) is another episode in Hollywood's saga of U. S. industrial evolution. Like Wells Fargo and Union Pacific, Western Union deals with the westward march of pioneer communications. More Western than Union, it touches lightly on the telegraph, rides away full-gallop into a rousing tale of Indians, cattle rustlers, bad men battling on the prairie...
...Probate, Divorce & Admiralty Division of Britain's High Court one day last week. Fifteen of them were survivors of the British tanker San Demetrio, veterans of the Jervis Bay convoy (TIME, Nov. 25); the other, a representative of a dead comrade. What they had to add to the saga was as epic as the battle itself...
...than Playwright Barry, who has written it often (Holiday, The Animal Kingdom, et al.}. No one could have adapted it better than pink-faced, pink-thinking Scenarist Donald Ogden Stewart. Both writers learned the proper inflections of the polite in the best clubs at Yale. Woven into their saga of the supertaxed is a thorough discussion of snobbery, from which they spring to the conclusion that it is possible to have money and social position and still be nice. Converted to this reasoning is Reporter Stewart, who enters the Lord household muttering complaints about watching the privileged class enjoying...