Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wild One has the disturbing shock of reality (it is based on The Cyclists' Raid by Frank Rooney, about a gang of motorcycle hoodlums operating in California in 1949), but its main purpose seems to be to shock. No one can doubt that the movies are highly skillful at picturing brutality and violence, but The Wild One suggests that Hollywood may be making too much of a bad thing...
...dressing room. On his first assignment, Emcee Mike Wallace, smoothly exuding an out-of-towner's wonderment at the workings of the theater, used his tape recorder to get French Singer Lilo's story of her sudden stardom in Can-Can, veteran Hoofer Pat (Guys and Dolls) Rooney's advice to youngsters (first rule: "Don't whistle in the dressing room"), Shirley Booth and Basil Rathbone in a wake for the late Empire Theater, and Rosalind Russell with songs from Wonderful Town. This week's guest list: Rodgers & Hammerstein, Elliott Nugent, Yul Brynner, Ezio Pinza...
...previous major attempts: Warner's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) with Mickey Rooney, Joe E. Brown and James Cagney; MGM's Romeo and Juliet (1936) with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer. Financially and artistically disastrous, these productions convinced Hollywood that Shakespeare was "boxoffice poison...
...firing power was given to the Secretary of State seven years ago (chiefly to permit him to oust security risks) in an appropriations-bill rider. Three years ago it was extended to the Secretary of Commerce; the new bill proposed to include the Attorney General for the first time. Rooney and other Democrats argued that in 1953 the riders are unnecessary and dangerous because 1) all agency heads will have the power to fire security risks anyway, under the new Eisenhower loyalty and security program, and 2) the general power might be used to oust employees for patronage reasons. With...
...John Rooney was not licked. He bided his time while the powerful veterans' organization lobbyists, who feared that the firing power would upset the veterans' preference features of the civil-service law, went to work. Seventy-two minutes after the first vote, Rooney maneuvered another vote, this time by roll call. Result: the House reversed itself, took the firing power out of the bill, 181-168, and sent it along to the Senate, where Republican leaders will try to get the power back...