Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...culture." To catch the newsstand trade, the American edition wore on the cover a colored photograph of Cinemactress Vivien Leigh (Anna)* and moony, mustached Cinemactor Kieron Moore (Vronsky), separated by a nose tip from a Hollywood embrace. To Communist eyes this appeared "as bright and shiny as a toilet soap advertisement." In cutting the bulky novel by approximately two-thirds, gritted the Literary Gazette, the "American barbarians" had reduced Tolstoy's classic to a "him-and-her" boulevard romance, made Vronsky "an indisputable frequenter of dancing halls, and . . . [Anna] . . . probably a typist from Hearst's secretariat...
...Fine Art of Soap. Joe Harrell doesn't think he can change all that, but at least he can do something for the kids that reach Edison. Joe sees the job at Edison (and at the Benito Juarez school, of which he is also principal) as more than just teaching boys & girls to read & write. One of the extracurricular activities Joe started as soon as he realized that the cost of soap was largely responsible for the grimy looks of his students: practical soapmaking, out of lye and cooking fat brought from home...
...smouldering fire, which started in soap used for washing machines and spread to the rubbish brought six fire trucks and 30 students to Clark's Sea Grille on Holyoke Street, at 2 a.m. this morning before it was extinguished. The grille opened for business last Friday...
After long reflection, Director Heil bought the boy (for a price he regards as his secret) and took him home for a good soap & water scrubbing. By this winter he had reconstructed the sculpture's travels. In the 18303, it was purchased for the royal family of Württemberg and moved from Florence to a palace near Stuttgart; there it remained till after World War I, when a Berlin dealer bought it, later brought it to the U.S., where it wound up in the Manhattan window...
...Life of Riley (Universal-International) may be an ominous preview of the day when more & more radio soap operas will be seen on television. For four years, a sharp-eyed young man named Irving Brecher has produced Riley, a radio show about one of those homey American families that persist in radio scripters' minds. Now he has put the program's star (William Bendix) and a cast of actors into an untidy little movie made up of short episodes and an endless crescendo of gags...