Word: bea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prospects for Lufthansa are not bright. The competition is fierce; virtually every West European nation has its own airline, and even the-two largest and best-equipped outfits operating in Germany (Air France and BEA) are currently losing money...
Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Tribute to the late Gertrude Lawrence, with Sarah Churchill, Lily Pons, Judith Anderson, Bea Lillie, Gracie Fields...
Tribute to Gertrude Lawrence (Sun. 7 p.m., NBC). With Bea Lillie, Oscar Hammerstein II, Mary Margaret McBride...
...Lady Sneerwell and you see why the play's balance has been upset. Mary Anne Goldsmith only now and then gives signs of the genuine, luxuriant wickedness which marks Sneerwell. For this wholesale slandering, the production looks to Elinor Fuchs as Mrs. Candour. Looking like a malignant Bea Lillie, Miss Fuchs deals in double-dealing, and very adroitly. Andre Gregory, as the hypocritical Joseph Surface, matches Miss Fuchs' high standard of lowness and holds his own in the fast company of Scandal's College...
...bugles sound. Two Red regiments, 2,000 men in dark green, come out of the jungle on the double. They blast holes in the French wire and scale Bea trice at its steepest points. ("We had trouble angling our guns low enough to hit them," said a legionnaire. "We threw grenades down, but they kept on climbing like monkeys.") At 2000, the Communists overrun one legion company. At 2 200, they attack the Algerian battalion on Gabrielle. At midnight, they go for De Castries' southernmost position, but there the French guns cut them to pieces...