Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult to be sure just who is who. Yet the device gives full play to Anderson's strongest talent: his grasp of the speech rhythm and idiom of his people. More clearly than in much fiction, it is in the telling that the truth of the tale emerges...
Crackpots in the Classroom. Money is "only the beginning of the tale." Academic standards would fall. Tuition-grant schools could not hope to offer quality or variety of courses. Example: Little Rock's recently closed private Raney High School (TIME, Aug. 17), which offered less than 25% as many courses to its segregationist students as did the public Central High School, had no music, art, general mathematics or foreign languages. Nor would a wave of fly-by-night tuition-grant schools (most unaccredited) be subject to responsible supervision; fanatics and crackpots could easily control budgets...
...Ransom of Red Chief (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Abetted by the network, Scriptwriter Phil Reisman Jr. has tampered inexcusably with O. Henry's hilarious tale of the kidnaping of a young hellion. With William Bendix, Hans Conried, and Mickey Rooney's nine-year-old son Teddy...
When Beerbohm Tree was first faced with producing this tale of "the boy who would not grow up" in 1904, he attempted to defer the production, feeling certain that Barrie had gone quite mad to have written such an escapist play. The show went on, however, and with overwhelming success. The character of Wendy set a new fashion in children's names: and many youngsters believed in Peter's magic so thoroughly that they broke limbs while attempting to fly like him. (In case you are concerned about the latter, Sir James soon announced that one had to have Peter...
This simple tale of a kindly cripple who falls in love with the neighborhood tough's mistress had its world premiere in Boston twenty-four years ago, to critical acclaim but only moderate public support. After Gershwin's untimely death in 1937, it was successfully revived on on Broadway by Cheryl Crawford in 1942, with the important addition of occasional dialogue. In this more popular operetta form, it has since become a part of our musical heritage and an international box-office success...