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Dalton Trumbo and Adrian Scott, screen-writers who were then under indictment for contempt of Congress, were barred from an April 20, 1948 meeting. They were scheduled to talk on civil liberties. A meeting on civil rights, set for January 17, 1949, with Communist Party official Emanuel Blum as speaker, was also not allowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Screen Writers, Communist Kept Off UNH Campus | 5/26/1949 | See Source »

Oldtime Cinemactress Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven, 1927) and Designer-Husband Gilbert Adrian arrived home safe & sound after a six-week safari through Darkest Africa, just in time to catch a breathless Vogue preview of their trip: "Apart from several happy forays into Abercrombie & Fitch's Dr. Livingstone department, neither of the Adrians had had any experience as explorers. Their plans, not to shoot, but, rather, to admire the animals ('an enormous love of animals is our principal motive') modified the equipment situation somewhat . . . There would be a few days in Nairobi where dinner dress would be needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Music Magic," on the same bill, tells the story of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during the war. The movie is acted by actual Orchestra members, and therefore lacks professional finish. But if you're interested in seeing Constant Lambert, Sir Adrian Boult, and the Philharmonic in action, it's worth sitting through...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/28/1949 | See Source »

...again by the roar of cannon. But this time the guns were firing orderly salutes. Ireland was formally a Republic. By the External Relations Act (passed last December and proclaimed this week) it had severed its last direct tie with the British crown. For the first time since Pope Adrian IV, 795 years ago, gave the island to England's King Henry II, Ireland was independent in law as well as fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Independence Day | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Eleven of the 12 murals were burned in the fire. Fogg obtained the series of the rare photographs from the noted philanthropist C. Adrian Rubel. Several large colored reproductions of the paintings are also being shown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Photos of Jap Murals Go on View at Fogg | 2/1/1949 | See Source »

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