Word: welds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Headquarters for Omnibus is Room number 1 in Weld Hall. It has been crowded for most of the week. After lunch hour on Thursday one rather tall, crew-cut man walked out and muttered, "Only one world for what's happening around here: Chaos...
...might have been the center of outside attention, but in Weld everyone had things to do. With 15 cameras and three remote units--all the mobile equipment CBS has available in the East--scheduled to do the show, attention could not possibly remain with one man for long...
Upstairs, in Weld 6, staff director Elliot Silverstein, in charge of the Eliot House remote unit, started going over The Merchant of Venice with his attractive assistant, Bennie Lee. The Eliot Drama Group was scheduled to do two scenes from this play in the House junior common room. He finally decided on the Jessica and Lorenzo love scene and the Old Gobbo scene for slapstick. It was "finalizing the script," as he called...
With that, the first session of the Eliot tutorial scene was over. On the way back to Weld, Silverstein started worrying about WNAC-TV's remote unit. The station had promised to have it all ready to go by 3 p.m. on Saturday. Yet, it did not plan to start setting it up until 11 a.m. that same day. As he told Bennie, "Do you realize, they want to do in four hours what our men from New York plan to do in two days with the other units? How can they possibly hope to be finished on time...
...Weld, Silverstein showed Lewis the way he planned to do the tutorial scene. Lewis said he liked it. A few minutes later, just after 5 p.m., one girl said, "No more problems. We're shut for the night." Naturally, she was joking. Numerous script revisions still had to be made, and then the corrected versions had to be mimeographed. Also, the directors and producers still had to watch the Pudding show rehearsal at 5:30 and the Glee Club at 6:50. But both of these were relatively relaxing for all concerned. Their only purpose was to give the Omnibus...