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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Actress May Participate...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: New Group to Sponsor Rally Seeking Action in Hungary | 11/17/1956 | See Source »

Among the speakers the Committee is trying to obtain for its rally is Hungarian-born actress Ilona Massey. Financial backing for the demonstration is reportedly coming from a "group of Boston citizens" who have become interested in the work of Sheehan's group...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: New Group to Sponsor Rally Seeking Action in Hungary | 11/17/1956 | See Source »

Whatever her predicament or hairdo, Actress Russell remains the triumphant embodiment of festive pandemonium and soignee wackiness. Hers is a delightful twining of farceuse and comedienne: she can give a drawing-room inflection to a loony-bin situation, or turn daffy or profane in the midst of playing a grande dame. To wonderful good nature she adds a few drops of acidity-juice from a sun-kissed lemon. Though Auntie Mame is really a one-woman show, Peggy Cass deserves mention as an unmarried expectant mother, and Polly Rowles as a stage star who has always started sleeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 12, 1956 | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...Norma's rival, was adequate though often wobbly. Since she looks much the way Callas did before her celebrated slimming down, it was hard to see why the Roman governor would prefer her to Norma. But none of this mattered much with Callas on stage. As an actress, unlike most of her competitors, Callas radiates credibility even in the silliest situations. Her performance is not a mere recital with costumes and a few gestures, but a thing of passion and of peculiarly stylized and yet convincing movement that is distinctly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Champ | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

Married. Jessie Royce Landis, 51, veteran actress of Broadway (Kiss and Tell) and Hollywood (To Catch a Thief, The Swan); and Major General John Francis Regis Seitz, 48, commander (since May) of the U.S.'s Military Assistance Advisory Group in Iran; both for the second time; in Teheran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 12, 1956 | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

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