Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Horse-Radish." "More platter, less chatter!" cries Manager Ben Strouse of Washington, D.C.'s eminently profitable WWDC, which features "Lucky Buck" giveaways. "All network radio is good for is to supply soap opera to a dwindling number of little old ladies weaned on that sort of thing." As for the independents' news coverage, Bill Shaw, manager of San Francisco's booming KSFO, snorts: "People are more interested in a fire down the street than in the Lebanon crisis...
Most radio network executives are defiantly optimistic in public, but privately worried. CBS apparently believes that there is no use in bucking TV in the evening with any strong radio competition; it fills the sunny hours unimaginatively with soap opera and such housewife pacifiers as Arthur Godfrey and Art Linkletter. At ABC, which dropped untold thousands in network radio last year, gloom is officially repressed. But one network bigwig groaned last week: "Network radio is just a ghost. They're doing horseradish. All we're doing is keeping the lines...
...some industry leaders themselves admit that there is little any cosmetic can actually do to help the top layer of the skin, almost twice the thickness of onionskin paper. Says one beautician: "The best cosmetic is soap and water...
This beat-generation soap opera is strung together with a brassy and banal score by Composer Michel Magne, dressed in sets by Painter Bernard Buffet, and choreographed (by Americans John Taras and Don Lurio) for the most part like a Broadway musical. Visually (and for the box office), its handsomest parts belong to a splendidly configured blonde named Noelle Adam in a seductress role that fits her like a leotard. Best dancer in the company proved to be a regular of the Royal Danish Ballet named Toni Lander, who managed as the wife to make her final-act love scene...
...scandal about Lana Turner's private life affect her public appeal? At a preview of this picture, when Actress Turner's name flashed on the screen, cheers rocked the galleries. The picture itself might more suitably be greeted with groans, but it is just the sort of soap opera that can be useful in laundering a reputation...