Word: extravaganza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Technicolor musical fans will get what they deserve in the latest Betty Grable extravaganza. "Meet Me After the Show." Experienced addicts may be able to tell this picture from her last one, but the time-worn Grable formula remains unchanged--the picture consists of five lavish dance scenes glued together with just enough plot to give the show some semblance of continuity...
Broadway Showman Billy Rose found himself co-starred with unwanted billing in an impromptu extravaganza featuring a part-time pal, blonde Actress Joyce Mathews, twice married to No. 1 Television Comedian Milton Berle and twice divorced. The show opened when Manhattan cops answered a frantic call from Rose. Joyce had locked herself in a bathroom of his luxurious private apartment over the Ziegfeld Theater. When the police arrived, Rose shrilled a few stage directions ("Don't tell any reporters about this! I want no publicity. It could ruin me! Please, no publicity."), then led the way to the barricaded...
...Selling" a college, though, can become a performance approaching a Cecil B. DeMille extravaganza...
...Selling" a college, though, can become a performance approaching a Cecil B. DeMille extravaganza. In fact DeMille himself could probably take a few pointers from the annual "College Day" held at many large mid-western high schools. The schools, many of them no doubt irked at the unending parade of college admissions men, have in many cases had over 400 college officers assemble in the same place on one day to talk shop...
...latest M.G.M. musical extravaganza, "Royal Wedding," has the world's longest song title, a pleasant but undistinguished musical score, and Fred Astaire. Astaire alone makes the show worth seeing. At the age of 50 and after several "retirements," he has still enough dancing magic to make an ordinary musical sparkle, but this should come as no surprise. What is news is that Jane Powell, the current in a long list of Astaire dancing partners, sings and dances with enough youthful enthusiasm to rival the old master...