Word: allysons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Acne. Novelist Flannery O'Connor put it another way: "Everything that rises must converge." The casting together of the two fastest-rising performers in the business was inevitable?it always is. But it once took half a career to manage the box-office mergers of Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson or Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The tempo of American cinema has speeded up; it happened to Farrow and Hoffman after one big hit apiece...
These are impressions of Greece which a Harvard graduate student brought home from a summer spent touring that nation, as he told them to Allyson Mae '69. The story is clearly biased against the regime, but, we hope, it's also biased in the favor of truth. The student discusses the campaign which the regime was waging to pass its new constitution, the antilibertarian aspects of the document, and American involvement with the regime. As expected, the constitution, which the Sept. 25 issue of Le Monde denounced for making Greece an "undemocratic democracy," was passed in a referendum last weekend...
Sheila MacRae was in the running; so were Lisa Kirk, June Allyson and half a dozen others. Rarely had so many of Broadway's grandes dames hankered after one leading role-and a replacement part at that. Yet when Angela Lansbury stepped down from her brassy, jazzy, sassy lead in Mame after 775 performances, the plum was passed to a long shot-Janis Paiqe, 44, one of the leggiest of World War II pinups and famed as Babe Williams in 1954's The Pajama Game. "This is the show I've been waiting for all my life...
NYACK, N.Y., Tappan Zee Playhouse: June Allyson is trying out a new play called Good-By Ghost...
...year out of college before he began displaying his baby face onstage with a touring band called the Royal Peacocks around 1925. Dick Powell Jr., 15, could hit the road earlier. With his mother, June Allyson, a still wholesome but depressingly matronly 42, the lad was appearing in a comedy called Good-By, Ghost at Chicago's Pheasant Run Playhouse. The show is plain turkey, but Dick Jr. seemed to have all of his late father's spirited style...