Word: serially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Houston is a onetime teacher in Rochester's Eastman School of Music who is currently starred as a horse-opera hero in Pathé's serial The Lone Rider. ("Those horses bounce the bejesus out of me-I hate 'em.") But Houston has learned things in Hollywood. He takes grand operas in hand, revamps the stories, alters characters, rewords arias-and of course translates them into English. Rossini's The Barber of Seville, now in rehearsal, he telescoped from a three-and-a-half to a two-and-a-half-hour opera (including intermissions...
When America's sensationally popular radio serial, The Aldrich Family, went back on the air last month, Aldrich actors fidgeted nervously while General Foods kept its fingers achingly crossed. Calamity had overtaken Henry Aldrich again. This time the Army had clamped down on Sergeant Ezra Stone's once-a-week performance as The Aldrich Family's Penrodish son. So Henry was being played by another actor: Norman Tokar...
Canny, crack-voiced Ezra Stone, 24, the script's top drawing card, started as Henry Aldrich in the stage play, What a Life, from which the radio serial was concocted. The script was a summer fillin, but Ezra's adolescent croaks and bleats so delighted radio listeners that The Aldrich Family emerged in the fall of 1939 as a full-fledged weekly show, soon had an audience of millions...
...among his innumerable Armenian relatives-whom he had claimed in his draft application as dependents. Result: his dependents ceased to be dependents, and Saroyan was reclassified by his San Francisco draft board as "potential 1-A." The playwright asked deferment in order to carry through with a serial production, beginning this month, of 20 Saroyan plays. Said he: "We have a terrific program outlined. If I were drafted or given a commission to do writing it couldn't be one bit as effective as the writing I am doing as a civilian. However, I'll insist...
Behind the exploit was the patient labor of a tall, thirtyish, toothy assistant to U.S. High Commissioner Francis B. Sayre named Woodbury Willoughby. Willoughby gathered the treasure from Philippine banks, counted gold and silver, burned currency and securities after recording their serial numbers, then supervised its transfer...