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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...common touch, Blackpool's history is alight with great names of show business-W. C. Fields. Bea Lillie, Danny Kaye, Marlene Dietrich, Gertrude Lawrence, Tallulah Bankhead. But none of them could rewrite the Blackpool creed. "You can't be chichi in Blackpool" is how one Blackpudlian phrases it. "It's not art for art's sake here. It's art for Pete's sake, and Pete owns the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VAUDEVILLE: Down to the Fish 'n' Chips | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

...true Manhattan snob boasts that he never goes to the pier-fringed West Side except when sailing to Europe. In that spirit, Actress Tallulah Bankhead last week lamented to a New York Timesman that she will soon be forced to journey west to begin rehearsals for her first Broadway appearance since 1957, the title role in Midgie Purvis, a new farce by Mary Chase. Said Tallulah in her Far East town house: "I never leave the East Side. I haven't been to a nightclub in ten years, and the theater bores me-and besides, I haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 22, 1960 | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

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