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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy last August for two months (sponsored by the American Theater Wing), will soon round out a six-month European tour. After 77 Italian performances in 78 days, and 60 more in France, The Barretts was shivering in Paris last week. Oil burners were hidden around the stage; Actress Cornell was draped in a lace centerpiece to hide her khaki-underwear neckline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Foul-Weather Friends | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

Sonja Henie, whose skates are lyric, was named Least Cooperative Actress of the Year by the Hollywood Women's Press Club. Runners-up: Veronica Lake, Betty Grable, Lana Turner. Men's champion: Walter Pidgeon. Said he: "It's just like being nominated for the Academy award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 1, 1945 | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...TIME'S apologies to Grandson Thaxter for confusing his grandmother, Poet Celia, with Actress Phyllis, a distant relative. In her day Celia Thaxter was famed for her poems for children (notably The Sandpiper), her sketches of the grey New Hampshire coast and her summer garden "salon" on the Isles of Shoals, where her father, an exlighthouse-keeper, kept a popular hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1944 | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

Miss Lamarr, though inclined to stolidity as an actress, is one of the great beauties of her generation. Her admirers will find her especially well worth watching in this film, for she is far more delicate and responsive in her role than usual, and she has never before been made up, gowned, lighted and photographed to such dazzling advantage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 25, 1944 | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...Oklahoma" choreography, it has become fashionable for every bigtime show to feature ballet. Jerome Robbins, choreographer of Bernstein's "Fancy Free," has produced an energetic series of dance which are the high points of the evening. Sono Obato performs with such grace and precision; what she lacks as an actress is amply compensated for by poins and artistic elegance. "Miss Turnstiles," an imaginative ballet, pokes fun at the ephemeral grandeur of the young women who gain "Miss Something" titles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 12/19/1944 | See Source »

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