Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...language elegant" by constant revision of an official dictionary. It is slow work. The Immortals, though their average age is 73, are in no hurry. The last revised edition of their dictionary was finished in 1932, and they are only up to the B for braise in the new version. Naturally, one must not rush headlong into the definition of words as delicate as bouillabaisse (should it, or should it not, include a slice of floating stale bread?), or to the admission of such Americanisms as bluff (accepted). So, with only the deadline of immortality to achieve, the academicians ponder...
...singers ("They've had a rather poor time of it for the last 30 years"). He also decided to swallow any fears he might have about sounding like Verdi or Puccini. Last week, ten months after the London première, the New York City Opera staged its version of Troilus and Cressida. It was a direct...
...great change in the standard cast or plot. The brightest of the new situation shows is You'll Never Get Rich, starring Funnyman Phil Silvers as an Army top sergeant with a heart of solid larceny. Silvers makes life in the armed forces seem like a rainbow-colored version of a goldbricker's dream...
...with a clear field; Producer Mike Todd has dropped his project, despite a finished script by Playwright Robert E. Sherwood and months of preparatory work put in by Director Fred (High Noon) Zinnemann. (MGM and Producer David O. Selznick quit the race months ago.) The Ponti-de Laurentis movie version of the great Russian novel is being shot in Italy and Yugoslavia, with Audrey Hepburn starring...
Rodgers & Hammerstein premeditated their killing carefully, and the screen version of Oklahoma!, which cost $12 million to make and distribute, seems sure to knock 'em dead in numbers perhaps without precedent-some observers are already predicting a $75 million gross. At least on the billboards, this dollarpalooza has everything that the Broadway musical had, along with Eastman Color, famous names, and a technique called Todd-AO-a brand-new, giant-screen process all its own. Oklahoma! will run at advanced prices (from $1.50 to $3.50) in 50 cities from coast to coast before it is distributed through regular channels...