Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fervor. Andrey and Natasha (well sung by Morley Meredith and Helena Scott) faced each other across a garden ashiver with moonlight and poured out their yearnings in great warm gusts of melody; Natasha pirouetted giddily at a ball and lacily sang her infatuation with Anatol across the shimmer and sheen of violins. In one magnificent ball scene, a percussive, insistent invitation to the dance ("Dance, dance, dance the waltz") eerily foreshadowed the dance of death that was to come on the battlefields. In other passages the music sparkled with a dry wit, or lilted through the great candlelit palaces...
Perry Como, in two holiday colorcasts (Dec. 22 and 29, 8 p.m., NBC), will engage, among others, Bishop Fulton Sheen, Rosemary Clooney, Teresa Brewer. Red Buttons, Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong...
Life Is Worth Living (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). "Alcoholics and Drunks Worth Knowing," discussed by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen...
Grand Scheme. The high sheen on Sun was due largely to one man, Hollywood's Oscar-winning Producer-Director Frank Capra, 58, who spent four years making the show. "It was a labor of love," he says. "I just wanted to prove science could be diverting." To Italian-born Showman Capra, a chemical-engineering graduate of Cal Tech, Mr. Sun is no documentary but "a show, with accurate physical facts-a fresh attempt to glamorize science." So are his three upcoming TV ventures for Bell: Hemo, The Magnificent, the story of blood and circulation; The Strange Case...
...operating in the black (in the first nine months this year, American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres' earnings were up to $6,616,000 from $5,286,000 last year). Kintner also built up his programming with top TV shows (Omnibus, Lawrence Welk, Disneyland, Bishop Sheen), expanded ABC's network (now up to 215 affiliated TV stations). But he failed to match the other networks' vast increase in total radio-TV billings; from 1949 to 1955 ABC's billings rose 73% (to an estimated $76 million a year), NBC's went up 170% (to an estimated...