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Break It Up. In 1945, Lucia made tall, gifted Broadway Producer-Designer Oliver Smith her codirector. (Says Smith: "It's still Lucia who stomps into backstage arguments, claps her hands, and says 'Come on, let's break it up and get back to work.' ") Their Ballet Theatre Foundation brought in outside financial help, but even so Ballet Theatre almost went under two years ago. Lucia's own contribution: close to $1,500,000 from the fortune left her by her carpet-heir husband, Thomas Ewing Jr., who died...
...excitement, young (33) Mike Reilly found himself elevated to codirector of the White House Detail. His wartime stewardship of Franklin Roosevelt's safety is recorded in this sequel to Starling of the White House (TIME, March 11, 1946). Readers will find it an amusing, properly reverent account of the Detail's war of nerves against a largely nonexistent army of assassins...
...more talented teams now making movies, have already collaborated on four Noel Coward productions. The trio that first worked together on Coward's In Which We Serve: Anthony Havelock-Allan (associate producer), Ronald Neame (cameraman), and David Lean, who was then only 23, as cutter and codirector. The three got along so well together that in 1942 they decided to form their own production unit, Cineguild. On Coward's suggestion they next adapted This Happy Breed, writing their own screenplay with occasional help from Coward. After doing Blithe Spirit, they felt sure enough of themselves...
...real upswing came in 1934 when two things happened: 1) RCA began to remember and worry about its long dormant record business; 2) a brand new concern, Decca, entered the field with a sheaf of fresh ideas. Dapper, bespectacled Jack Kapp and his codirector, Edward R. Lewis, had long contended that what the country needed was a good 35? record (standard prices had previously ranged from 75? to $2). Signing up big names in the popular field (biggest: Crooner Bing Crosby-see p. 50), Decca put this contention to the test, and sales began to skyrocket. Today, the five-year...
Opinion is divided regarding the resignation of Richard Strauss, famed composer, from the Vienna Opera. The resignation was the result of differences of opinion existing between Strauss and Franz Schalk, his codirector. Strauss wanted many new programs. Schalk favored less innovation on economic grounds...