Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Mme. Berta Morena, 74, German-born, oldtime soprano of the Munich Opera (1898-1924) and the Metropolitan Opera (1908-12; 1924-25), famed for her good looks and spectacular voice (her specialty: Wagner); after long illness; at her home in Rottach, Germany...
...tackle-around play, a spectacular maneuver, was an indication that the Crimson has lots up its sleeve, to be Probable Lineups (offensive) HARVARD COLGATE Crowley (180) le Williams (201) Toepke (195) lt Murdoch (188) Pappas (201) lg Morrow (174) Lemay (192) c Vedder (203) Manos (200) rg Rowe (183) Stargel (202) rt Day (211) Cochrane (190) re Chandler (185) O'Neil (190) qb Lalla (165) Clasby (180) lh Simmons (167) Ederer (190) rh Totten (170) Culver (215) fb Liggett...
Indications are that the spectacular may be called for against Colgate, a team owning three straight victories, over Cornell (13 to 7), Buffalo (13 to 0), and Rutgers...
Manhattan moviegoers last week were packing a Broadway theater to see something new in moviemaking called Cinerama. The critics enthusiastically called it "thrilling," "sensational," "breath-taking," "spectacular" and a "revolution in motion pictures." The movie itself, a haphazard series of travelogues called This Is Cinerama, would have excited no one if it had been shown by ordinary projectors on a flat screen. What made audiences sit happily through two hours of the first public sampling of Cinerama was the "three dimensional" sensation to eyes & ears (TIME, July 2, 1951). The illusion jammed the spectators into the front...
With all his knack for rough-tough, sexy, spectacular productions, Hughes seemed unable to cope with the complex operations of a big studio. His insistence not only on policy-making but on such details as film-editing slowed RKO production to the extent that it lost $3,500,000 in 1950, has not started a new picture in the last three months...