Word: billboards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music season drew to a close and the baseball season opened, the tradesheet Billboard proudly front-paged some comparative figures. In 1953, reported Billboard, 35 million attended professional musical performances (almost as many as the 37 million who went to major-and minor-league baseball games). At the box offices in 2,100 communities, music lovers spent $50 million, while the whole of organized baseball took in only $40 million. With the classical record market taking 30% of record-sale dollars, it looked, thought Billboard, as if the U.S. might be going longhair...
...story is a former New York girdle model who put three-quarters of an inch onto her hipline and grew out of every available designer's pattern. Reluctant to return to Mother without achieving fame, she spends her savings to display her name, Gladys, Glover, on a four-story billboard in Columbus Circle. The ensuring difficulties confuse the other protagonists of the film while Gladys Glover remains blissfully unshaken. This unawareness, along with Glady's bewildered glances and unrestrained smiles make the humor of the film ample though Mr. Kanin's plot is thin...
Last week Billboard listed Capitol's Music for Lovers Only (produced by TV Funnyman Jackie Gleason) as No. 1 best-selling popular album, leading more sedately covered LPs by such favorites as Doris Day, Eddie Fisher, Eartha Kitt and Liberace. In general, sales of all the gaudily decorated albums are going strong. Record executives take satisfaction in the thought that they are just giving the public what it wants. "We try," says one, "to be sober-within reason...
Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) is a nobody with an all too mortal longing to be a Somebody. Fired from her job in a Manhattan garment mine, she heads for Central Park to have a daydream of grandeur. Wistfully she gazes at a big, empty billboard on Columbus Circle, imagining how her name would look there in 12-ft. letters: GLADYS GLOVER. What happens next is a hilarious example of dumb-blonde logic. Since her name would look wonderful on the sign, and since she has $1,000 in the bank, why not rent the sign and put her name...
...just as the boy-Francis Xavier Lamadrid-lost his balance and came sailing down. Sarno braced himself. Frightened women spectators screamed. But seconds later, with the force of his fall broken, the child was safe in Sarno's brawny arms. Astounded passersby, screened from the catch by a billboard, assumed that Sarno had caught...