Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humor and intense irony to good effect. He varies his rhyme scheme to fit the special tone of each poem, and his rhythm fails only at one point in the last song. Less monumental, but equally effective, is "In Rainwoods," written by an anonymous poet, blasphemously dubbed Sam Hall. The rainwoods contain soft red leopards and a girl and a great sense of wonder...
Guys and Dolls. Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Elaine in Samuel Goldwyn's $5,000,000 version of the Broadway musical. It's a beaut, but Sam made the prints too long (TIME...
...addition a U.S. District Court threw out a suit of Silberstein, president of Penn-Texas Corp., to block the Canadian Locomotive-Fairbanks, Morse stock swap. Ruled Judge Joseph Sam Perry: Penn-Texas "looks like a conspiracy of some type to raid the stock market . . . A slugging operation." After hearing testimony that Penn-Texas still owed $2,300,000 on $4,300,000 it paid for 100,000 shares of Fairbanks, Morse stock, the judge said he had "grave doubt" that Penn-Texas legally owned the shares it claimed. Crowed Bob Morse Jr.: "Obviously, Silberstein has much to learn about legitimate...
Guys and Dolls. Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Elaine in Samuel Goldwyn's $5,000,000 version of he Broadway musical. It's a beaut, but Sam made the prints too long (TIME...
Brass Bite. Prawy began by putting Sam and Bella Spewack's slangy, sprightly spoof of Shakespeare and show business into sprightly, slangy German. Then, to give the Cole Porter score bite, he put an edge on the staid Volksoper orchestra in the form of a dozen Viennese axmen, most of whom cut up in brass. To keep the musicians jumping, he imported Conductor Julius Rudel of Manhattan's City Opera Co. He also imported his key principals from the U.S.: handsome Brenda Lewis of the Metropolitan Opera (Kate), and two relative unknowns, both Negroes, Olive Moorefield (Bianca...