Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris, Miss Paris of 1947 - a leggy actress named Kay Trevil - declared that Americans had "more character" than Frenchmen, said she would sail for the U.S. this week to marry the credit manager of a clothing store in Columbus, Ohio...
...Norton S. Brown, internist, for marrying (third husband) Writer-Actress Ilka (In Bed We Cry) Chase...
...actress thus bracketed last week was Celia Johnson, star of such British films as This Happy Breed and Brief Encounter (in which her performance was voted the year's best by New York City's film critics). The occasion: her first stage appearance in five years, as the heroine in the Old Vic production of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan. The reception was unusual for Celia only in that it contained dissent...
Inspected feature by feature, Actress Johnson is a plain woman. Yet her stage presence, dominated by her huge, sorrow-logged eyes; is delicately compelling. Celia is far less dramatic and complicated than she appears. Says her Old Vic director, John Burrell: "Celia always sticks to simple two and two make four." Noel Coward, one of her fondest fans, complains that in her simple contentment "she has to be batted on the head...
Asked to comment on Adams House's "The male Animal" in which she appeared, budding actress Anna Prince replied, "I am a senior at Radcliffe. I used to keep two white mice in my room. I am an English Major. I have an Indian motorcycle." She then departed through the "stage door," a conveniently-placed window overlooking Mr. Auburn Street, for a quick between-the-acts smoke...