Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wizard of Oz (CBS, 6-8 p.m.). A rerun of the great Judy Garland film (vintage 1939). With Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton. Color...
Despite a two-to-one vote by students to invite women to the first annual Quincy House Christmas play, none of the fairer sex will see the curtain rise on The Wizard...
...remarkable group of puppets created by ex-Actor George Nellé, 34. and Writer-Director Don Kane, 30. As Hostess Brigid and her small guests sit by and offer advice, creatures named Tugnacious R. Jones and Myrtle Flower ("She's an Eloise type") join an old, nasal-voiced wizard in such projects as constructing a popcorn machine that will not stop popping, and making a sewing machine that turns out marbles...
...multitalented performer, actor, hoofer, singer, comedian, lariatist, tightrope walker, bareback rider, ventriloquist, mime, minstrel; after long illness and two years of total blindness; in North Hollywood, Calif. Famed as half of the vaudeville team of Montgomery & Stone, he made the leap to Broadway as the straw man in The Wizard of Oz (1903). Through such great hits as Victor Herbert's The Red Mill and Jerome Kern's Stepping Stones (in which his daughter Dorothy made her debut), Fred Stone became the nation's top musicomedian, later switched to straight plays and the cinema...
...bottle. He turned restlessly to science. He patented a preservative for ships' timbers and a system for heating houses, developed a "new theory of the universe" which attributed the movement of astral bodies in space to electrical attractions and repulsions. He was an immensely likable lush, and a wizard at the easel. But his pictures never sold well. They lacked extravagance and high polish; for all but the quietest of dining rooms they spoke too softly of small delights. At the end, his wife was forced to take in boarders to support the family. As his last job before...