Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...together almost every night. Mamie did not take her turn at cooking, but she always washed the dishes. After the war, in New York, Washington, Paris, Mamie stayed on in the background, and her friends predict that if she goes to the White House, she will still avoid the spotlight...
...revue that should somehow be funnier. The most professional of Leonard Silurian's various New Faces, it looks trim and moves fast. It is full of sophisticated ideas to be sung or spoken; it exhibits a bunch of likable new faces, a few of which should catch the spotlight more & more. But the product is not quite up to the packaging. For all its expensive gloss, its Raoul Pene du Bois sets and John Murray Anderson staging, it never really bankrolls 'em in the aisles...
Last week the scene-Paris' Theatre des Champs-Elysees-and the principals were the same as at that uproarious premiere of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in 1913, and again there was bedlam. But this time the composer stood in his box, bathed in spotlight glare and the audience's acclaim, clasping his hands together like a victorious boxer. The tohu-bohu did not abate until Stravinsky marched onstage to buss Conductor Monteux on both cheeks. Said beaming Pierre Monteux: "There was just as much noise the last time, but of a different tonality...
Charlie Durakis, Bob Mello, and Pete Dow led the Crimson scorers to a 91 1/2 to 481/2 victory over Brown at Providence Saturday, but Bob Twitchell stole the spotlight with a brilliant 21-second 220 performance. The freshmen also romped over the Brown yardlings...
Hyphenated Candidate. The basis for the slogan had existed in Wisconsin ever since Warren entered, but now the spotlight was focused on Warren-Eisenhower, the hyphenated candidate. Warren insisted he was running on his own. But the core of his slate was made up of old Progressives, including ex-Governor Phil La Follette, who are Eisenhowermen at heart. They turned to Warren because they could...