Word: showings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that had long supported the opera were cut. Public support all but failed. In 1934, the wealthy patrons were looking for a way to drop their expensive hobby. The A.F.M. local agreed to take it up. Since then, Oscar F. Hild, the union's president, has run the show. One of his shrewdest ideas: the Young Friends of Summer Opera, whose teen-age members serve as money raisers and ushers, and so spend free nights at the opera. Hild expects the Young Friends to grow up into old friends -and cash customers-of the opera...
...shower of dried beans and pin feathers; then a covey of dead quail and a stuffed cow flopped down onto the stage. There were shotgun blasts, scampering midgets, severed arms, proscenium-climbing cupids and baboons in full cry. Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, the rowdiest, slap-happiest zanies in show business, had moved into Milton Berle's time spot (Tues. 8 p.m. E.D.T., NBC TV) with their first television show...
...comics have been working on for 35 years. It grew from the first prop they ever used - a brass rail to support their vaudeville rendition of Sweet Adeline. Today, their hundreds of props fill three baggage cars, their cast of 90 includes 35 stooges. For all its size, the show is still essentially a family vaudeville act. Johnson's pretty daughter, June, and his son-in-law, Comic Marty May, have leading roles. So does deadpan Ole's deadpan son, J. C. Olsen. Johnson's wife and Olsen's mother used...
Into the Parlor. Last year Olsen & Johnson invaded Europe to satisfy a lifetime ambition to play in Scandinavia (Olsen is of Norwegian descent; Johnson, Swedish). They were so successful in London that the show never got to the Continent. One Hellzapoppin road company is still in England; another is touring New Zealand. Both men have invested their huge earnings (they grossed $227,000 in 16 nights in Chicago; $387,000 in 14 days in Toronto) in real estate and in such enterprises as a string of frozen-custard stands on Long Island and an ice-skating rink in California...
Hollywood Calling (Sun. 6:30 p.m., NBC). New giveaway show...