Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High spot of the show were twelve of the 16 famous drawings of imaginary carceri" (prisons). Tiny tattered figures cowered beneath enormous vaults and arches; huge spiked wheels ground inexorably; stairs spiraled up the dank walls to nowhere. In a world where nightmare prisons and melancholy ruins were once more an appalling reality, Piranesi's treatment of them hit as hard as ever...
...Meanwhile, Olivier bubbled with plans of his own. Next month he expects to launch his own firm, Laurence Olivier Productions, with a new James M. Bridie play starring Dame Edith Evans. Tied down to his present busy Old Vic schedule until July, Olivier will neither act in the new show nor direct it, but next season he intends to keep busy as angel, manager, director and star...
...Lambs Gambol (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC-TV). New variety show with Bobby Clark...
...show what he meant, Mirror Editor Lait clutched his readers by the throat in the first paragraph of a spicy divorce story...
...Wagner's ten-acre Wisconsin kennel, Dorian von Marienhof did so well at begetting blue-blooded pups that three-quarters of the 24 boxers in the Special Champion Class last week, at the Westminster Kennel Club Show, had his blood in their veins. The best of them, in the opinion of the judges, was Wagner's pug-ugly Zazarac Brandy of Mazelaine, at 3 a veteran of 50 shows...