Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they can present a copy of a design they never paid for. In three months the $300 custom-made copies will have been copied in their turn to sell for $49.50. and by the time the copy is copied and further simplified to reach Union Square in an $8.95 version, every stenographer will be muttering about that old thing she is wearing, and every loom from Massachusetts to Alabama, every Manhattan sewing machine and cutting table from 25th Street to 41st will be humming merrily to the tune of her discontent...
...film studio near London, 526 years after Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, realism-bound Producer Otto (The Moon Is Blue) Preminger sought to restage the event, almost succeeded. Shooting the burning scene for his movie version of Shaw's Saint Joan, Preminger watched happily as his fledgling star, young (18) Iowa-born Jean Seberg, mounted a pile of faggots and was duly chained to the stake. Soldiers lighted the faggots and Jean's eyes rose with the flames. Suddenly, before a dummy could replace the lady not for burning, a gas pocket, fed by hidden...
...Urbane Jazz of Roy Eldridge & Benny Carter (American Recording Society). A witty dialogue between Eldridge's jabbing trumpet and Carter's clean, relaxed alto sax. Worth the price of the record alone: a wailing, heavily percus-sioned version of Eldridge's Polite Blues...
...last week, Deputies from Milan, Naples, Rome and other cities had formed a solid pro-opera bloc. The Under Secretary of State for Spectacles withdrew his lubsidy bill and promised to submit a new, milder version. Florence's monkish Mayor Giorgio La Pira refused to sign orders laying off opera employees on the;rounds that it would require so much in severance pay that it was cheaper to keep ,hem employed. Said he: "Angels sing in perfect harmony. In paradise, nothing but music is heard. I must remind the government that in paradise the angelic chorus s not subject...
...Academy of Television Arts and Sciences-the kind of distinction that hard-riding Tom Mix and Buck Jones never overtook. In movies the adult Western goes back at least as far as John Ford's Stagecoach. On the air it owes its start to the radio version of Gunsmoke, which began in 1952. Some adult...