Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost twice the number of Spectaculars (39) that it produced during the past season. Among the wonders: a repeat of last season's successful Peter Pan; a two-hour telecast of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, starring Mary Martin and Helen Hayes; a musical version of the Pulitzer Prize play Our Town, starring Frank Sinatra; a series of one-and-a-half-hour Sunday afternoon productions of Shakespeare's plays, starring Maurice Evans; a series of 90-minute original TV plays by the best TV playwrights NBC can lay hands...
...every meeting of the commission and wrote all but two of the reports (Legal Services and Procedure. Real Property Management). In the report on Water Resources and Power, he boiled 1,783 pages down to 124; in some cases he produced half a dozen penciled drafts before the final version...
...start each tourist season with a cultural eye-opener. The committee began with the idea of using the Louvre's 3½-acre Cour Carrée, one side of which is dominated by a superb Renaissance clock tower. What could be more appropriate than to stage a version of the Renaissance tale of Romeo and Juliet? And what treatment of that theme could be more grandiose than French Composer Hector Berlioz' half-symphony, half-opera, written in 1839? Berlioz composed his work for a chorus and three solo voices, but they are minor roles-he gave neither...
N.F.P.'s version of the battery is a thin, blackish wafer about the size of a half dollar, enclosed in protective glass. It has two electric terminals like any other bat tery, and when it is exposed to bright sunlight it generates about half a volt. A square yard of the batteries would light a 100-watt lamp or run an electric fan. A few acres would give enough power for a fair-sized town...
...offering four summer Spectaculars. One, a nostalgic reminiscence of a prewar year, Remember-1938, was shown last week with Groucho Marx as host. Two of the three others promise to be good summer fare: the Broadway musi-comedy One Touch of Venus, and Svengali and the Blonde, a musical version of Trilby, starring Carol Channing...