Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Manhattan's swart Harlem, but The Bronx. There, in an old Biograph studio, Micheaux Picture Corp. has got around to producing the latest of some 40 Negro pictures it has made in 20 years. They are scripted, directed, edited and peddled by thickset, mild-mannered, chocolate-colored Producer Oscar Micheaux. Micheaux pictures take an average ten days to shoot, cost from $10,000 to $20,000. Casts are always allstar. "If I made one person the star," says foxy Producer Micheaux, "there would be no holding that person with a halter. I make them all stars." Though Oscar Micheaux...
When pudgy, pugnacious Oscar Levant went to Manhattan from his native Pittsburgh in 1922 with a copy of Romain Holland's Jean Christophe under his arm, he expected to start a heavyweight musical career. Earning a living playing the piano in speakeasies and theatres, he spent his leisure studying with famed Music Teacher Sigismund Stojowski...
...famed Gershwin-Grofé Rhapsody in Blue), and an intermittent pupil of famed Arnold Schönberg, who taught him how to write complicated high-brow music. When, nine years later, he returned to Manhattan to conduct and arrange music for shows by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, Oscar Levant was jack of a dozen musical trades...
Last week, Oscar Levant added one more to his long list of trades by publishing a book of gossip and reminiscence. Modestly entitled A Smattering of Ignorance (Doubleday, Doran, $2), Author Levant's book races bumptiously and gabbily through 267 pages of anecdote about the great, near great, and not-so-great of the music and cinema worlds, pats Toscaninis and Stokowskis on the back, mourns worshipfully at the late George Gershwin's shrine, analyzes the musical gifts of Harpo Marx and Charlie Chaplin, chats wittily and continuously about Oscar Levant...
Smart, cold-blooded businessman though he is, Maney sometimes takes on flops, turns down successes. Last season he almost took on Madame Capet, which ran for seven performances, instead of Oscar Wilde, which ran for 247. He sets his income at $25,000 a year; Broadway sets it higher...