Word: adrian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...classrooms, and outsmarts his chilly fiancée, Rose Hobart, at the cat-&-cat game. In some bewilderment, psychologist and girl reporter fall in love. Typical side dish: a bespectacled adolescent, complete with outsized Adam's apple, who falls for Miss Wright. Best thing in the show: Iris Adrian as a stripteaser, uttering shrill little growls of self-esteem as she does-or rather, undoes-her stuff...
...VOYAGE OF THE CAP PILAR (360 pp.) -Adrian Seligman-Dutton...
...barkentine of 295 tons, named for a headland in Tasmania, and she was rotting at a stone quay in St. Malo when Adrian Seligman found her. Six years out of Cambridge and holder of a second mate's certificate earned in three years at sea, Seligman had a new wife, a legacy of ?3,500 and the uncertain future that everyone had in 1936. He bought the Cap Pilar, refitted her and sailed her around the world...
...Young Man's Fancy (by Harry Thurschwell & Alfred Golden; produced by Henry Adrian) treats of a summer camp for boys & girls - and particularly of four young ruffians who share a bunk with a rich man's coddled son. In its few bright moments, the play catches the addled essence of adolescence; but it keeps encoring each good bit until it turns into a bore. Worse still, A Young Man's Fancy combines a trite comedy plot with a cheap comedy trick. The little rich boy decides to play Master Fixit in a counselors' sagging romance...
...Wilfred Theodore Weems is no hot jazzman, though his first job after leaving college in 1924 was blowing the trombone in a group called the California Ramblers (other Ramblers: Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Adrian Rollini). Weems soon started a band of his own, specializing in what he calls "businessman's bounce." His College Inn audience last week was mostly people in their late 30s or early 40s, who got nostalgic memories when Weems played his old theme song, Out of the Night, and could remember the last time Heartaches...