Word: wildering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playwright Thornton Wilder, for his help in planning combined operations in the Mediterranean, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire, in Manhattan...
...catch the buyer's eye, record companies are turning some strange handsprings. Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel can be heard singing Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' in one album, and in another, Frank ("The Voice") Sinatra, who can't read music, conducts a symphony orchestra in Alec Wilder's jazzy suites (Columbia, 6 sides...
...John Erskine's The Private Life of Helen of Troy; 1928-Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey; 1931-Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth; 1933-Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse; 1936-Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind...
...brass band blared out the Blue Danube. G.I.s and Germans jammed merry-go-rounds and snap-the-whips at the Theresien-Platz, theaters and the opera in Prinzregenten-Strasse. As throughout Germany, excellent performances were played to jampacked audiences in roofless theaters. U.S. plays were a fad. Thornton Wilder's fantasy, The Skin of Our Teeth, (TIME, Nov. 30, 1942), was playing to full houses in Munich (as in London). Even Munich's Schaubuden, satirical little theaters like Am Platzl, whose stock in trade is poking fun at politicians, thrived again. Their current butt: the Military Government...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Dorothy McGuire and Author Thornton Wilder in Our Town...