Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spectacular of the week starred Steve Allen, Judy Holliday and France's top pantomimist Jacques Tati, who played the Chaplinesque lead in the movie Mr. Hulot's Holiday (TIME, July 5). Tati was the hit of the show in a brief series of vignettes (a determined tennis player, a fumbling fisherman, a cowardly boxer, a prancing circus horse and rider) that showed off a remarkably agile and expressive 6-ft. 4-in. body. The week's second big color feature, Cole Porter's Panama Hattie (CBS), boasted Ethel Merman, but even Trouper Merman could not keep...
...Spectacular (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Best Foot Forward (in color), with Jeannie Carson, Charlie Applewhite, Marilyn Maxwell, Robert Cummings...
...Spectacular (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). Fanfare, with Judy Holliday, French Comedian Jacques Tati, Frank Sinatra...
...provide capital, it could, in theory, check overexpansion, could favor enterprises which the country needed most . . ." But Berle does not believe that the judgment of the market place plays this part in contemporary U.S. capitalism. The modern corporation is strong enough to ignore the judgment of the market. The spectacular fact is that most of the new capital for the enormous postwar expansion came not from the market place but from within the corporation, i.e., profits and reserves...
...Spectacular No. 4 (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC) was the best spectacular yet. Directed by Hollywood's Otto Preminger and starring Ginger Rogers in three short plays by Noel Coward, the show started slowly with a vaudeville skit that was notable for the expertness of Ginger's cockney accent. The second playlet, Still Life, co-starred Ginger with Britain's Trevor Howard, but it lacked the pathos of either the 1936 Broadway original (starring Noel Coward and the late Gertrude Lawrence) or the movie version, Brief Encounter. But in the third number, Shadow Play, Ginger was romantically believable...