Word: extra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...producers giving their man the right to play the piano, to address the audience, and not to be referred to by flacks as a "millionaire" or even "rich" (nonetheless, he is wealthy). Since Jane is off Broadway, the playhouse's 175 seats were his for only $300. One extra: Perky, whose father was Princeton 1881, slipped Actor Monroe Arnold a ten-spot to change the target of a snide remark from Old Nassau to Yale...
...right, both seated at Stein-ways. Then Leonard Bernstein launched his assembled forces into Bach's Concerto in C for Three Pianos. A part of last week's special Bach Christmas program by the New York Philharmonic, the concerto was ably executed, drew enthusiastic applause and an extra bow by the performers. The odd thing about the performance: Bernstein's fellow pianists had never before played for such an audience. They were David M. Keiser, board chairman of the Cuban-American Sugar Co. and president of the New York Philharmonic, and Carlos Moseley, the orchestra...
...also doing something about costs. Cleveland's National Acme Co. brought out a new cam-finishing machine that does the job in 20 sec., v. 1 min. 15 sec. "What's just as important," says Acme's President T. L. Strimple, "we're being extra good in courting business in Europe and Asia. We give customers service, quick deliveries, parts, anything they ask for, just as if they were in Cleveland...
Somehow, the fresh and volatile Bancroft talent carries extra surprise, for the brief Bancroft career is a thunderous theatrical cliche. Even the name is a typical Hollywood banality: 28 years ago when she was born, Anne Bancroft was Anna Maria Italiano. She was the kid who scribbled on the back wall of her apartment house, "I want to be an actress," and who kept showing off for the handsome stranger whom she took...
...hand when by accident he spilled the bottle of milk the boy was carrying. Since he was not really a mean man, but only hairy and unattractive to goldfish, he gave the boy two coins, one to pay for the milk, another to spend. The boy immediately put the extra coin on the right color and won the goldfish, which swam eagerly into the attendant...