Word: backdropped
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...scene, he looked as though he might chew up every backdrop in California; with a rich, bellowing bass to match his histrionics, the effect was heroic. After the death scene, the bravos all but blew the house in. Even the critics sounded their A's. The Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein: "Never before have I heard an audience gasp when an operatic hero fell dead; this is the final measure of the conviction with which Rossi played Boris." Declared Critic Cecil Smith in the News: "The most commanding Boris since Chaliapin...
G.B.S. might have been startled at some of Producer Pascal's casting: Television Comic Alan Young as Androcles and a professional football player and wrestler named Woody Strode as the lion. But Shaw would undoubtedly have been delighted with the painted backdrop for the Colosseum scenes. Two seats away from a beaming likeness of Pascal is a portrait of (George) Bernard Shaw himself...
...Commissioner In a smoke-filled hotel room, traditional backdrop for major decisions in U.S. public life, the owners of baseball's 16 major league clubs met to consider baseball's big problem: Who would replace Happy Chandler as baseball's ruling commissioner? Since firing Chandler as commissioner last March, the club owners had ranged far afield in search of the right man for the job. Last week the owners found the right man right in their own backyard: Ford Christopher Frick, National League president...
...France, stately and beautiful, came up New York Bay, one of her prominent passengers,* a five-star general of France with a faint battle scar on his left cheek, had a particular wish. The general wanted a picture of himself with the Statue of Liberty as backdrop. The massed press photographers were glad to oblige. General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, impeccable from kepi to pigskin gloves, turned his hawklike profile to the lenses and pointed theatrically toward his country's copper gift...
...Rube! In Palisades Amusement Park, N J., after he had paid off ten kewpie dolls, four Teddy bears and a set of china to a wondrously successful dart thrower, Concessionaire Joe Weissman investigated, found the marksman's confederate behind the backdrop with a long hatpin...