Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twentieth Century-Fox President Spyros P. Skouras, there to boost Cinema-Scope, flashed a gloomy picture on the screen. Said he: "Over 6.000 theaters have been closed since 1946. Don't be misled. What happened to those people can happen to you . . . Television is the greatest enemy the industry ever...
...Twentieth Century Concert Hall (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
...Twentieth Century Concert Hall, over a CBS network, coast to coast. Every Sunday, for six weeks (1 p.m., E.S.T.). he will lead a string orchestra or a chamber symphony in programs consisting of the works of younger U.S. composers and the less familiar pieces of more renowned Europeans ("We don't believe in segregation of music"). The first program: the Siciliano from a Bach sonata (arranged by Stokowski), a Concerto for Orchestra by Manhattan's Alan Hovhaness, 42, and a memorial performance of an Adagio by the late Nicolai Berezowsky...
...inundated with furious sight and sound every day of the week. And, impressive as is the wide CinemaScope screen, it is also curiously oppressive for eyes trained to the simpler demands of "flat," ordinary films. Can CinemaScope be used for anything except ponderous spectacles and chorus lines? Twentieth Century-Fox's Production Chief Darryl Zanuck thinks it can, and will attempt to prove his point with the soon to be released How to Marry a Millionaire, a lightweight comedy starring Marilyn Monroe. In fact, Zanuck has placed $35 million worth of eggs in his CinemaScope basket by scheduling...
...Twentieth Century-Fox, which last month suspended film production in Great Britain (so that its personnel abroad could bone up on Fox's new CinemaScope), admitted it would shut down Hollywood production for a month this fall. The New York Times estimated that Fox's total layoff of Hollywood personnel would reach 30 to 50% by October...