Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brattle Theater put on artistically successful shows, but never managed to make money. It did create the proper atmosphere and enthusiasm for the Festival, however, which, hopefully will become a yearly event to give the atrical talent--especially American--an opportunity to direct or appear in plays which would not normally be presented in the commercial theater. The interest of the producers and of the University is focused on the possibilities of making the Festival a really important event, with internationally know theatrical figures coming to Cambridge and not only participating in the productions, but also taking an active part...
...major TV networks, NBC and CBS are locked in a permanent war for talent, ideas, advertisers and listeners. This season one of the war's major campaigns is the battle of Sunday night at 8 (TIME, Oct. 17, 1955). Thus far, CBS has won. With the Ed Sullivan Show consistently rated one of TV's top two most popular shows, CBS has had little trouble with NBC's mediocre Comedy Hour. Last week NBC announced its newest strategy. Beginning June 24, it is throwing Comedian Steve (Tonight) Allen, 34, into the Sunday night breach...
...amiably through this pastiche, firing off salvos of one-line jokes, mugging happily, and milking his nervous stomach and faint heart for every sight gag possible. Eva Marie Saint is mostly limited to wearing high-fashion clothes and looking elegant, but, in the drunk scene, she exhibits a comedy talent of her own-especially in a Groucho-like gallop that definitely hits the Marx...
They also vary considerably in merit. The best job is young Actor T. C. Jones's female impersonations, especially of Tallulah. Short-haired Billie Hayes makes a lively ditty of / Could Love Him, Virginia Martin a lively ditty of Talent. In La Ronde a foursome smoothly act out a liltish tune. Funniest spoof proves to be one more take-off on a big Ziegfeld-era staircase number, with a showgirl, rigged out like an entire orange grove, having a ghastly time on the stairs. There is fun in Steady, Edna, which rags a British jungle film, while an upper...
...like a lot of young men and women, he had tried to write like Edna St. Vincent Millay without knowing one end of a burning candle from the other. But even as Tennessee, and even after The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire had proved where his real talent lay, Williams went on writing poetry...