Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From balcony to pit the audience, which had come to see a revival of Kaufman & Ferber's Stage Door, seethed with indignation. Actress Ilena Sylva was actually chomping a real banana-scarcest of all delicacies in Britain...
...professional men who were mainly clerics, professors, doctors, lawyers, journalists. One-fourth of their fathers were businessmen; the rest were farmers, auditors, a railroad conductor, etc. Their mothers (51% of them) were housewives, but the rest practiced a variety of occupations such as school teacher (14%), concert pianist, actress, periodical illustrator...
...scandalized some European churchmen, who smelled an "American heresy." French ecclesiastics, to whom democracy meant Jacobinism and anticlericalism, were especially outraged. They could not forget France's great bloody adventure in democracy, when revolutionaries in 1793 seized Notre Dame Cathedral as a "Temple of Reason," and crowned an actress as "Goddess of Reason...
Born. To Monte Proser, 41, Manhattan saloonkeeper, and Jane Ball, 24, stage & screen actress, onetime hoofer at Monte's Copacabana: their first child, a son; in Kingston, N.Y. Name: Charles Morgan. Weight...
Married. Carl Joachim Hambro, 60, well-to-do, Conservative president of Norway's Odelsting (Lower House of Parliament), onetime president of the League Assembly, now a UNO delegate; and Gyda Christensen, 73, Norse actress; he for the second time, she for the third; in Oslo...