Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pretty fair murder mystery. On the evening of his first try at playacting, the novelist is found shot in his hotel bed room. Suspected are a whole stageful of sophisticates, including the novelist's mistress, a South American general, a shy French playwright, brilliantly acted by Austrian Oscar Karlweis, and a fat, macabre play director, who threatens just before the body is found: "I'll club him to death with his own truss." Crime Club members may get to thinking about the denouement and decide they were robbed. Less sophisticated mystery lovers probably get their money...
...SMATTERING OF IGNORANCE-Oscar Levant-Doubleday, Doran...
...three flag-waving songs on Variety's best-selling list.* The assault on England has boosted A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square to No. 3 on the list. But the fall of France has inspired the best tune: The Last Time I Saw Paris, by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. Not yet a bestseller, this song was well on its way last week. Kate Smith had had exclusive radio rights to it for six weeks. There were half a dozen records of it, of which silky-voiced Hildegarde's (Decca) best captured its nostalgia for the boulevards...
Reaching Manhattan after a taxing flight from France, oldtime Viennese Composer Oscar Straus met his son and daughter-in-law, who persuaded him to sit down at the piano for the first time in six months, strum a few chords from his operetta The Chocolate Soldier. "In Europe," sighed Composer Straus, "the day of the waltz is for the moment ended...
...Follies of 1941 (produced by Oscar F. Johnson, Edwin H. & Roy L. Shipstad ). Like its four annual predecessors, this big, glistening chunk of the new Ice Age will tour throughout the U. S. (23 cities this year). Today's fancy ice skaters have developed an astounding rapport with each other and with frozen water. They have already done about everything on skates it would be safe to show the children. To other, less accomplished skaters, the great ice stars already begin to seem like gods. To timid nonskaters they frequently seem on the point of killing themselves...