Word: theater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French musical line. Though often incisive, Mehta's operatic work does not yet measure up to his symphonic accomplishments. As a result, Barrault created a Carmen that was acted more than it was sung. But he also provided the Met with a brilliant venture into musical theater...
Perhaps that's what made him try show biz. He had won money in the Charlie Chaplin impersonation contests that were the craze at local vaudeville houses. Midway in his junior year at East High School, he dropped out to become a dancer at Cleveland's Bandbox Theater. His partners in subsequent years included a pair of Siamese twins and a neighborhood girl, Mildred Rosenquist. Years later, Hope said that "we would make seven or eight bucks, and I would split it with her." Mildred, now a California housewife, challenges that claim to this day. "Bob told...
...whole enterprise. More than one corporation boss has suggested that Bob is supremely capable of running any kind of major business. RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff says that he is even slicker at the negotiating table than on the air. Richard Berg, who produced Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater for TV, says he "has a very crisp approach and a totally organized mind. He's not an easy man to please; you know he's measuring, testing you all the time...
...many people are dependent on him; besides, he says, "I've got a government to support." His gifts to charity are calculated in their entirety only by Hope, but unquestionably they run into the millions of dollars. He recently donated $802,000 to S.M.U. for a theater, $125,000 to the Los Angeles Music...
...might inspire a right wing isolationist reaction in this country, Reischauer has tried to strike a middle ground between isolation and escalation. Urging the government to seek negotiations rather than a military victory, he argued that further bombing of the North could do little beyond creating a second guerrilla theater. On the other hand, he maintains in his book, if we pull out immediately "in our eagerness to save American lives and stop the carnage, we might help produce such instability in Asia and such impotence in ourselves that the development of a more stable prosperous, and peaceful Asia might...