Word: anna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King and I (music by Richard Rodgers; book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd; based on Margaret Landon's novel, Anna and the King of Siam; produced by Rodgers & Hammerstein) may not quite be Rodgers & Hammerstein at their best, but it is musicomedy at its most charming. Distance lends enchantment doubly-in time as well as space-to the story of an English widow who went to Siam in the 1860s to act as governess to the King's large brood, and found her most eager, childish and unruly pupil in the King himself...
This battle of sexes, collision of races and conflict of ideas, this spectacle of a king learning to govern from a governess, is sometimes touching, and far less insipid than the usual musicomedy romance. Gertrude Lawrence plays Anna with bright, at times even glaring, charm, and with the versatility of a governess particularly qualified to teach singing & dancing. Yul Brynner plays the King with scowling magnetism-with a born fierceness of manner that cannot hide his growing moral confusion...
Asked to comment on the fact that she had been named one of the nation's ten best-dressed women, Assistant Defense Secretary Anna M. Rosenberg admitted that the award was, indeed, a surprise. "I wear the same suits as last year, only a little more shiny...
...Maugham's Trio closes up shop Monday at the Sutton, 57th and Second, after a long, profitable run. Odette, a new British adventure story at the lush Park' Avenue Theatre at 59th Street, concerns itself with the true-to-life spy work of a female relative of Winston Churchill. Anna Neagle and Trevor Howard head the cast. The Golden Salamander is at the Little Carnegie, next to the big on West 57th, with Anouk as an extra feature. Believe it or not, Red Shoes is still playing, now wedded to intermezzo with Leslie Howard and Ingrid Bergman at the Little...
...State of New Jersey is the defendant in the case. For 35 years, New Jersey law has prescribed the reading of five verses a day from the Old Testament. Students whose parents object are not required to be present. Even so, two New Jersey taxpayers, Mrs. Anna Klein of Hawthorne and Donald R. Doremus of East Rutherford, members of a group entitled the United Secularists of America, object seriously. They have sued on the grounds that any kind of Bible reading is a violation of the constitutional provision for the separation of church and state. Last October the New Jersey...