Word: southern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe we of England have a harmonious feeling for Southern women," observed Gertrude Lawrence, who will play the Southern mother in the movie version of The Glass Menagerie. "They are usually reposed, quiet-spoken and gentle in their manner. You'll find that true of most English women...
...Louis, Cincinnati and a dozen other cities, buses and streetcars have been wired for sound. (Moaned a Washington bus rider: "Wasn't it Hitler who tried to drive the Austrian chancellor crazy by forcing him to listen to the radio?") In many places, including Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh and southern New England, grocery stores were blaring music and commercials. (Stanley Joseloff, president of Storecast Corp. of America, said happily: "It's radio plus. We get a 100% listening audience at the point of sale because everyone who's there has to hear...
With such mock solemnity Wall Street marked the passing of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., the giant utility holding company now finally dissolved under the Holding Company Act. For years. C. & S.'s low price (generally about $5 ) and large amount of common shares outstanding (more than 33 million) had made it a volume leader on the big board and a rich source of commissions for brokers. C. & S. preferred and common stockholders will get shares in four utility companies, with a listed total of only 20 million common shares...
Marc Blitzstein, under a Koussevitzky commission, found these in "The Little-Foxes" by Lillian Hellman, and he calls the product "Regina." The play deals with a decadent, bickering Southern family which breaks to pieces over an unscrupulous money deal. The composer has worked into this a ball with many Southern belles and several appearances of singing and playing Negroes. In general the music effectively increases the tension, though, with a lack of variation in the first act which is exasperating. Many of the arias, particularly those of the sweet, flighty Birdie, are genuine mood pieces, effectively incorporating devices...
...adequate. But Robert Lewis' direction is seriously incpt and gross. Birdie begins too many of her songs lovingly stroking the back of a satin chair. The frollicking little Negro boy is nothing but trite, and Regina's daughter, Alexandra, is far more of a bop fan than a young Southern beauty of 1900. Regina destroys the last and most, effective scene with an interminable haughty posc...