Word: spared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already storming his shocking way to the top of the Viennese art world. "Our art is being ruined by good taste," the young Austrian rebels had said; Kokoschka had set out to save art from that ruination. He was a wild and moody young man, a writer in his spare time of wild and moody plays that set the audience to battling with umbrellas in the aisles...
...Betty Hutton. Playing her bookish boy friend, Macdonald Carey behaves more like the president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. All in all, the movie manages to destroy the original play's tenderness and its moral ("facts are better than dreams"*). Dream Girl gets by, with little to spare, on the strength of some frantically energetic scenes showing Betty as a flaming señorita, as a South Seas trollop and as Madame Butterfly...
...phone rang. The voice on the other end was breathless: Could Miss Varnay get down to the Metropolitan Opera House at once? Helen Traubel was ill and the Met had to have a new Isolde right away. An hour later, Astrid Varnay, hastily bewigged and costumed, but with no spare time for even a few warm-up scales, was ready to go on stage...
...power shortage (Our Lights Are Going Out) that brought complaints from General Electric and power companies. Fontaine had thought that Cottier's should have some of its old crusading spirit. The brass favored the editorial line of least resistance (Collier's safe-&-sane editorials are still the spare-time work, but not always the echo, of the New York Daily News's Reuben Maury...
...Cordon Bleu. Several thousand students (including such stove-struck celebrities as Harold Lloyd, Joan Fontaine and Nicholas Roosevelt, and many a society girl about to marry) have gone to school in her kitchen. Mrs. Lucas does all the marketing, cooking, teaching and telecasting herself, and writes cookbooks in her spare time (last week she was working on five new ones...