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...John Erickson said she "was like a bull in the ring." Inspiration for all the euphemism was Lee Bouvier, otherwise Princess Lee Radziwill, 34, younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy, making her professional acting debut at Chicago's Ivanhoe Theater in a four-week run of The Philadelphia Story. Alackaday. Neither g-u-t-s nor the services of Seamster Yves St. Laurent and a personal barber (Kenneth) could placate the picadors from the drama desk, who saw only a "lovely looking amateur, an enthusiastic beginner" who "laid a golden egg." Leading Lady Bouvier compared opening night to having...
...opportunity for me to bring up provocative things in show business," he explains. "It discusses why some people are successful and some are not -originally, I wanted to call it So You Want to Be a Star?" The new, kittenishly pedantic Vallee style ("Radio as I knew it is, alackaday, no more, no more") is a frank imitation of one of Vallee's old teachers, Yale's William Lyon Phelps ("one of the most unrestrained, lackadaisical and uninhibited speakers in the world...
...intermittent rain. It was bearable at most, but Saturday things took a turn for the worse. The children came out with a brand new idea--night maneuvers. Dunster has always prided itself in its distance from the hubbub and turmoil of Harvard Square or Bolyston Street, but alas and alackaday, those quiet days and silent nights are gone forever. Solemnly advised an Aentry man: "Freshman, pick your House with a cinder path or a nice brick walk...
Love Hungry. To be poor is no fun. Joan (Lois Moran) and Mamie (Marjorie Beebe) know that. Living in a cheap boarding house, with their efforts as chorus girls unsuccessful, they are glad when rich Lonnie Van Hook invites them out to dinner in a gaudy restaurant. But, alackaday, they must leave their only wristwatch to pay the check, because Mr. Van Hook is suddenly called away. Later, he brings an engagement ring to Joan; she shows it to her true lover (a poor author), who throws it out the window and marries her. Mamie, however, picks up the ring...
...Consolation," by Mr. Wardner, a sequel to "A Nineteenth Century Romance." It is written in the same humorous vein, and is the best thing in the number. The verses, "What the Tower Says," contains a good idea, but may more properly be called rhyme than poetry. Mr. Dennison's "Alackaday" is good, though the sentiment is not strikingly original. The usual book notices and Brief fill out the number...
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