Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patton Mouth. Kay survived the torpedoing of the troopship Strathallen to arrive in North Africa a few weeks after the Allied landing. She saw the bitter days of Kasserine Pass. She gave Ike concern because of the "grins, whistles, wolf-calls" which followed her "in this exclusively male territory...
...Melchior and Traubel should be kept regardless of heft, but minor singers could be given a year's probation and told to get rid of that candy box under the bed-or else . . . Opera would be a lot more popular in this country if there were a few wolf whistles mixed in with the bravos...
...hosiery, soap, cosmetics, hats, scarves, hair ornaments, castanets, costume jewelry. An impressive seller in its own right is the "Carmen doll" ($6.98); through 30,000 retailers, it piled up $1,000,000 in orders within its first 20 days on the market. "Carmen castanets" to be used as a "wolf-call" will be pushed as a national fad among teenagers...
There had been hints of trouble. Last July, the Met's directors announced that the condition of the U.S.'s No. 1 cultural pride & glory was "critical." But few took the announcement seriously: hadn't the Met cried wolf before? Besides, the 65-year-old Met had just had three rare, glorious years (1944, 1945 and 1946) in the black...
What did Hughes, the lone wolf, want with RKO? He takes great pains to hide his motives; but no doubt one motive was his hankering for theater outlets controlled by himself. RKO owns 124 theaters. Hughes has had great trouble distributing The Outlaw-that long and vigorously publicized mixture of sex, slapstick and violence-mainly because of censorship, but partly because independent exhibitors were simply afraid of it. To date, it has played only about 40% of its original contracts. In the face of derisive snorts from highbrow critics, Hughes firmly believes that, if distribution obstacles can be overcome...