Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studio audience in Manhattan's Radio City (which had scrambled for tickets-free but hard to get) saw a little, erect man in a dark suit coming on stage after the show was already on the air. He led with an economy of gesture; only occasionally did he indulge in vigorous sweeping motions. But at the end Toscanini was obviously exhausted: he kept patting his brow with a scented handkerchief as he made his exit through the violin section...
...December, after bouncing out of a well-heated studio into windy Rockefeller Plaza without coat or hat, Toscanini caught a cold. He insisted, despite a fever, on conducting his Sunday broadcast. Against his wishes, a doctor was called, and bundled the Maestro into bed. The doctor made Toscanini cancel his scheduled flight to Milan to open the La Scala opera season. Toscanini is fatalistic about death-he believes he will probably be killed in an accident-and scorns such medical precautions. Says he: "If you don't want to be sick, you don't have to be sick...
...tried golf, and decided he was not the type. Then he bought a race horse, and found a plaything that appealed to his instinct for high drama and fascinating figures. He confided to friends: "I'm going to run this stable the way I run my studio -build it on personalities." But once the heady smell of the stables got him, things got out of hand...
...Metro-Goldwyn's Mayer became one of the top spenders. He sank more than $5,000,000 in horseflesh and horse farms. A man who likes to run things himself, he found that he was working harder at his hobby than at running Hollywood's richest movie studio. Last week, after convincing himself it just wasn't fun any more, L.B. sold...
Boomerang! is based on a case in the early career of the former U.S. Attorney General Homer Cummings. It was photographed, completely outside the studio, in the streets, houses, churches and civic buildings of Stamford, Conn. A number of ordinary citizens get effectively into the act, though most of the speaking roles are handled by skilled professionals...