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Weatherwise, on the other hand, was a credit to the new society. Noel Coward's witty, fast-moving script was well-directed by Wink Neilson; and Barbara Bisco, Tina Cowley, Jim Rieger, Alison Mumford and Nick Strater all turned in well above average performances. Miss Mumford's transformation from a dignified British matron into a dog was the high point of the evening, and the quick exchange of patter among the members of her household never ceased to be amusing. It is fortunate that the Coward play closed the program, because it showed that the Leverett House group is capable...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Three One-Act Plays | 4/22/1955 | See Source »

JULI ETTA, translated by Alison Brothers (147 pp.; Messner; $3), is a contrasting companion piece from the same perfumed pen. It is a moony, brilliant bit of boy-meets-girlishness, more or less what might have happened if Stendhal had been writing for Sam Goldwyn. The ideal cast: Gary Grant, Gene Tierney and Audrey Hepburn. The plot: Tierney, a high-fashion cutie, comes for a visit at the country house of Grant, her fiancé. No sooner has she arrived than Grant discovers that Hepburn, a runaway adolescent, has parked herself on his premises. Sure that Tierney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 11, 1954 | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Author Marion (See Here, Private Hargrove) Hargrove, 34, who got a Juarez divorce from his first wife Alison in 1950 (after three children), announced that this week he will marry Robin Edwards Roosevelt, 25, who got a Juarez divorce (after one child) last week from F.D.R.'s onetime favorite White House romper and grandson, Curtis ("Buzzie" Dall) Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...final piece as a sharp contrast to the symbolism of the first and the morality of the second is both superficial and amusing. This fantasy Smith: A Masque by Alison Lurie describes the dilemna of a young graduate who must choose a life's work. The graduate played by Tom Kennedy must select among Junno and wealth, Venus and artistic fame or Minerva and scholarship. Smith an obstinate fellow will have none of them and the goddesses immediately dispatch him to points unmentionable. Despite an overlong ending, the performance is thoroughly enjoyable...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The Poets Theater | 5/23/1952 | See Source »

Funeral services for Alison R. Coolidge, 20-year-old daughter of Corporation member Charles A. Coolidge '17, will be held later this week. Miss Coolidge and two others, including H. Reed Baldwin, who graduated from the Law School last year, were killed in an automobile accident at Staatsburg, N.Y. Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Auto Crashes at Staatsburg; Three Dead, Two Badly Hurt | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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