Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheery studio on London's Tite Street, he worked doggedly at his portraits, muttering behind his easel when things didn't work out the way he wanted, "Gainsborough would have done it! ... Gainsborough would have done it." Sometimes he held his sitters' attention by painting his own nose red or pretending to eat his cigar...
Sometimes it seemed as if the delegates, who after all were supposed to make the decisions, were in fact like a studio audience at a radio broadcast: expected to register, by their applause and their switched-on demonstrations, their approval of a dramatic show on stage that was frankly being played to a larger audience. Every smirk, gesture, posture, cliché and evasion was repeated for one medium after another. The final absurdity was achieved when Chairman Joe Martin solemnly announced Governor Warren's nomination for the vice presidency twice-once for the audience, once for the newsreels (they...
...content with 23 publications (and three comic books besides), Ford is planning another (Ford Truck Times) with a starting circulation of 2,000,000. Hollywood is getting into the act with one called Close-Up. But Selznick Studio, its publisher, sees no reason to give away what it can sell. In several hundred movie houses and at newsstands, fans last week were forking over a quarter for a copy of Close-Up filled with little more than publicity puffs for Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Before his death (TIME, May 10), radio's Tom (Breakfast in Hollywood) Breneman...
...Studio One (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS), with Marlene Dietrich in Arabesque...
...month ago, when NBC refused to give him a raise, Frank Paris, Howdy's builder and manipulator, huffed out of the studio with Puppet Howdy under his arm. For awhile, the program's fate dangled by a marionette string. But M.C. Bob Smith still owned Howdy's name and voice, and NBC still had Smith. So, while a West Coast puppetmaker hurriedly whittled a new $2,000 marionette, harried Announcer Smith fenced with his young audience and concocted desperate excuses for the puppet's absence: Howdy was invisible, he was on a "presidential campaign tour...