Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, Actress Martha Vickers (see cut) displayed knee-length stockings to be worn with the New Look. Except for being held up with elastic instead of by a roll, they were much like the "roll-your-own" stockings U.S. women wore back in the roaring, short-skirted '20s...
Trumpet-voiced Benay Venuta (real name: Benvenuta Crooke) had come a long way from the San Francisco wharfside where she sang in the '20s. She has had a Broadway career (as a sort of second-run Ethel Merman) and a few big scenes in the movies. This week, at 36, Benay will step up to a microphone and a new career in radio as quizzer on a parents v. children stunt called Keeping Up with the Kids (Sat. 8:30 p.m. E.S.T., Mutual). The show calls for no singing, but that's all right with Benay. "I hope...
Good News. Good tunes and June Allyson in a hearty revival of one of the best musicals of the '20s (TIME...
Died. Richard Tauber, 55, bemonocled Austrian-born tenor, top-ranking specialist in light-wines-&-waltzing schmalzing; of a lung abscess; in London. Tenor Tauber skipped from opera to Lehar operettas in the early '20s, rode lightly to European fame on such frothy flotsam as The Merry Widow, sang Yours Is My Heart Alone so many times (about 15,000) that it became a Tauber trademark...
Good News. Good tunes and June Allyson in a hearty revival of one of the best musicals of the '20s (TIME...