Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contented Trader. The 1953 version of the White Sox is Richards' idea of what a ball club should be: hustling, bustling and fiery. It lacks heavyweight hitting, but will try to make up for it by defensive skill, tight pitching, and speed on the base paths. Richards was more than content this winter to trade slugging First Baseman Eddie Robinson (22 homers) for Philadelphia First Baseman Ferris Fain, who hit enough singles last year to become league batting champion (.327). Fain will be Richards' "take-charge" man in a. tight defensive infield that includes Second Baseman Nelson...
...they would have offended." After two more tries, Faulkner turned m a script that could be certified pure enough for TV. Kuhl is eager to do more Faulkner stories and even hopes the novelist can be tempted to write some originals. How did Faulkner himself like the TV version of The Brooch? Says Kuhl: "I talked to him right after the show, and he said he liked it fine. But some of his friends didn't. One of them asked him: 'Why did you do this?' Faulkner looked at him steadily and said: 'For money...
...Broadway four years ago. They labeled Regina a "musical drama," and invited the drama critics as well as the music critics to review it. The drama critics, whose notices are the ones that count at the Broadway box office, came and shook their heads; Blitzstein's musical version of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes seemed to them an unnecessary intrusion on a fine play. Regina ran for 56 performances, then gave...
Call Me Mad am. Ethel Merman spark-plugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical about a diamond-in-the-rough lady ambassador (TIME, March...
Successfully combining new talent with an old play, the screen version of The Importance of Being Earnest is as amusing as it is dated. The result is a mocking comedy at the expense of an extinct species...