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Clothes, or the lack of them, naturally obsessed the fashion-conscious French amorists. During the 14th and 15th centuries, women wore disconcertingly low-necked dresses, lacing their breasts so high that "a candlestick could be placed upon them." Agnes Sorel, mistress of Charles VII, pioneered a bare-to-the-waist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: L'Amour the Merrier | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

Shirley Temple's Storybook (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Rapunzel stars Carol (Blue Denim) Lynley, Agnes Moorehead, Alexander Scourby.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Agnes and Michael, the husband and wife of the piece, comprise the entire cast. Therefore, this is essentially an acting piece. As such it requires extremely accomplished character actors who can travel smoothly from their late twenties to their early sixties during a brief two hours. And being an intimate...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: Summer Playhouse Presents De Hartog's 'The Fourposter' | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

Miss Daneel is a very captivating woman, but she is frequently unconvincing as an actress. She is supposed to cry at several points, for example, but a drier eye was never seen. Moreover, she tends to squeal when she speaks, and she minces about excessively. Mr. Danielewski is the more...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: Summer Playhouse Presents De Hartog's 'The Fourposter' | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

Polish-born Marie Rambert studied briefly in Paris to be a physician, gravitated to the dance because of her admiration in the early 1900s for the U.S.'s flamboyant Isadora Duncan. After dancing in the famed Diaghilev company, she settled in London and opened her own school. To it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballet from Britain | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

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