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They have ripped Arthur Miller's excellent script from its original setting and placed it practically intact before the cameras. But they could not recreate the stage setting and the atmosphere of the legitimate theatre which are an integral part of Death of a Salesman. A lone figure, small in proportion to the huge frame of the stage, can stand before the audience and deliver an emotional, but long, speech effectively. And often the meaning of this speech depends on the contrast between the size of the character and his back-ground. Death of a Salesman contains speeches which...
...Then, there is a notable lone investigator, Delaware's Senator John Williams, who stirred up the case against the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Williams, who lends a hand to any committee, has been busy supplying leads involving the Farm Credit Administration and the Commodity Credit Corp...
...Lone Star (MGM) shows how Clark Gable and Ava Gardner helped persuade the Republic of Texas to become one of the United States. Gable plays a soldier of fortune dispatched by ex-President Andrew Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) to Texas Patriarch Sam Houston with a message urging Texas statehood. Ava ("That's a lot of woman") is an Austin editor who sides with Broderick Crawford, would-be dictator of an independent Texas empire, until Gable closes her eyes in kisses and opens them to what is best for Texas...
Despite many public appearances-he drew 48,000 people in Miami's Orange Bowl and 100,000 to Detroit's Belle Isle the Lone Ranger is seldom identified as a 49-year-old actor named Brace Beemer, who stands 6 ft. 3, weighs 195 Ibs., and raises saddle horses on his Michigan farm. Like Trendle and Script Director Francis Striker, Beemer has been with the show since its inception. He served as program narrator during the five years when Actor Earle Graser, who died in 1941, played the Lone Ranger...
...clean-living folk hero, the Ranger has been applauded by Boy Scout councils, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, parent-teachers' associations, and such notables as Vice President Alben Barkley, U.N. Delegate Warren Austin, J. Edgar Hoover ("The Lone Ranger is one of the greatest forces for juvenile good in the country"), and Bernard Baruch ("The same thrill I got as a boy reading Oliver Optic and Horatio Alger"). Creator Trendle offers his own recipe for the show's long life: "It is just plain, good, healthy American entertainment which will not offend anyone, because there...