Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plenty of action, and changes in the temper of the relationships, but nearly everybody seems pretty much the same at the end of the play as they were at the beginning. Turney also plays a very irritating trick on his audience by having the mother (Frances Dee, a capable actress from Hollywood) apparently, murdered at the end of Act II, only to reveal in Act III that she was just overpowered and temporarily hidden...
...incidental beneficiary was the management of Buenos Aires' powerful "Radio Belgrano." For two long years the station had put up with Perón's mistress, Eva Duarte, a third-rate actress who had demanded top-flight treatment. Soon after the good news came over the wire, Manager Juan Cossio got Eva on the telephone: "You needn't come to work tonight...
...Beerbohm, 73, famed British satirist, resuming BBC broadcasting after a three-year retirement, reminisced about the Victorian theater, which a great many people had frowned on. "The small son of that great actress, Mrs. Kendall," he recalled, "on his first day at . . . school . . . was asked by an elder boy, 'Your mother is an actress, isn't she?' He replied with spirit: 'If you say that again I will knock you down...
...ball clubs reached Chicago for the fourth game, a bumper crop of 400 flip-flopping newsmen had made the Cubs 11-to-5 favorites again. Grimm's frisky Cubs seemed to have more life than the lifeless Tigers-even on the bench. Jolly Cholly got kissed by Actress June Haver, and was told by Mrs. Grimm not to come home without a victory. But Steve O'Neill had been busy brewing a batch of pitching TNT-Trout, Newhouser, Trucks...
Married. Judge Bennett Champ Clark, 55; and Actress Violet Heming, 50, both for the second time; in Berryville...