Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gardner-Sinatra burlesque. This time the triangle revolved around some of Hollywood's shiniest showpieces. The husband: Dartmouth man Walter Wanger (rhymes with Grainger), 57, noted producer (Stagecoach, Algiers) and former Academy Award president. Walter Wanger had been on the financial skids since his monumental flop, Joan of Arc; after another failure he went into bankruptcy for $175,000. But he was still a man whose name stood for respectability, culture and the intellectual values at the crossroads of Sunset and Vine. The wife: Actress Joan Bennett, 41, beauteous screen grandmother and one of Hollywood's prime exhibits...
...which are so good that their appearance would add more to the "good name" than their commercial sponsorship would detract from it. The Corporation already has its cake and eats it when the Harvard Band appears on football broadcasts for the greater glory of Harvard University and Atlantic Hi-Arc gasoline. A group which can get a commercial radio or TV sponsor generally has something more to offer than its Harvard name, a fact that has not always been true of the football team, which the University itself subjects to commercial sponsorship at every home game. The present rule should...
Margaret plays a sixteen year old version of Jeanne D'Arc who cannot decide whether to enter a convent, thus pleasing one half of her family, or stay out and please the other half. By the end of the first act last Monday, the audience seemed in favor of the convent--the sooner the better...
However, P. J. Kelly--drafted from a straw-hat version of "Finian's Rainbow" last summer was always entertaining, affording some relief to the succession of gloomy tribulations. Beyond Kelly, the "Child of the Morning" has two attractions. If you have seen and enjoyed Ingrid Bergman's "Joan of Arc" by all means go to the Shubert and have a good burst of indignation at the inhumanity of humanity. Or if you enjoy seeing a pigtailed, mortal-saint attacked in her bedroom by Lucky Luciano's nephew, see the "Child of the Morning's" last...
...other occasions: Queen Elizabeth, Mary of Scotland, Joan of Arc, George Washington...