Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until WHRB receives further word from the FCC, Deane said that "the network will conduct experiments to see how low we can drop the radiation output and still have audibility." WHRB will also make repairs and alterations on its Dudley Hall studio, plan new programs, and continue training commentators and technicians...
...Merrill as Escamillo had to unlearn one of the cardinal rules of opera-taking musical cues from the orchestra leader. The singers set the musical pace of the show because, roaming their nine sets, they were sometimes 200 feet from the 40 musicians jammed into a corner of the studio...
...Giuseppina pleaded, so he put on his only good suit, joined 20 other applicants at the studio and got the role. For three months a black limousine picked him up every day at his tenement and took him to work. For his labors in De Sica's classic he got $1,000. With it he bought the new dining-room furniture that Giuseppina had always wanted, new clothes for themselves and the children, a family holiday in Florence. After that, he went back to his old job, and the-factory proudly gave him a medal...
...week's end Maggiorani got some help from the U.S., where movie fans prefer a happy ending. Manhattan's Italian-language radio station WOV cabled its Rome studio to hire him as an apprentice recording technician, and perhaps give him work as an actor. While Giuseppina held out for a real acting job, Maggiorani gratefully considered the offer...
...marines go into action, at Tarawa and Two Jima, they behave more like marines. While taking pains to reconstruct big scenes of the island battles, Republic has leaned heavily on incomparable wartime film to catch the terrible fury of the Pacific fighting. Unfortunately, by intercutting shots of Wayne & company-studio-lighted in uniforms that don't match those of the real invaders-Director Allan Dwan gets a patchwork that suggests a series of trailers intruding on some bang-up newsreel footage...