Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Redhead (book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, Sidney Sheldon and David Shaw; music by Albert Hague; lyrics by Miss Fields) puts musicomedy's million-dollar baby Gwen Verdon in a five-and-ten-cent storehouse of old theatrical gewgaws. The proof of her impishly awesome talent is not that she stops the show, which she does, but that she starts it-and sometimes startles it-into an amusing show of life...
Occasionally, Crabbe frequents the literary salon of Sidney Thorah, editor of The Blue Volume, "a lank round-shouldered bony unhealthy personage" (in real life Henry Harland, literary editor of John Lane's Yellow Book, made famous by Beardsley and Beerbohm). In his cast-off dinner jacket, Crabbe does not flourish amid the strangely innocent Ninetyish wickedness of this salon...
...going to be a sinecure for mediocrity. The old G.E. had a reputation as a good and complacent place to work if you kept your nose clean. I wanted to get rid of that idea and create more risk and opportunity." Says G.E. Director and Wall Street Broker Sidney Weinberg: "If you did something wrong, Cordiner would send for you and tell you you were through. That's all there would...
...Sidney Kingsley's play is of course also a human drama of a man whose humanity overcomes his professed politics. Under the direction of Alan Rinzler, the production gives vitality to his struggle and an explosive tension to the result. Nowhere in the show is there pause; it has a professional sheen...
...Defiant Ones. The chain that links two escaped convicts, a white man (Tony Curtis) and a black (Sidney Poitier), comes to signify, as Stanley Kramer's melodrama rises to its climax and its moral, the tie that binds all men to one another (TIME...