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...Hollywood's version of Mission to Moscow, the purge trial prosecutor has a black beard, black, beetling eyebrows and a wolfish snarl. When the film got a private screening in the Kremlin in 1943, the real prosecutor at those strange and gloomy assizes, a clean-shaven man with white hair and a pink face, almost collapsed with laughter-laughter directed not only against the movie but against the popular cliche of that day that a Russian Bolshevik was a man with a black beard and a bomb in his hand. If, twelve years later, the popular conception...
...ordinary Minskyites. They were members of a class in show business from Manhattan's mercurial New School for Social Research ("where serious-minded and mature students may gather to carry on their studies in a spirit of scientific inquiry"), founded in 1919 by such scholars as Charles Beard and James Harvey Robinson. The students had come across the Hudson to Newark (theater burlesque is banned in New York City) to study one phase of their subject first hand, with second looks...
Died. Billy Beard, 74, famed blackface comedian who, as end man in the Al G. Fields minstrel shows, was known to theatergoers of a generation ago as "the party from the South"; of diabetes; in Atlanta...
Techniques for Twitches. Before Landau was flown to the U.S., a blue-eyed pixy named Charles Brook-with a beard remarkably resembling Sigmund Freud's -commuted for weeks between his Har ley Street office and the royal stables outside Newmarket. A psychotherapist who began his professional career as a corporation lawyer, Brook would stride past the sneering unbelievers of shed row with magnificent aplomb and go directly to Landau's stall. There, standing close to his patient's side, he would place his left hand on the colt's withers, his right hand on the smooth...
Baboons & a Beard. Last week the last of the Grimaldis, his strapping and handsome Serene Highness Prince Rainier III, Due de Valentinois, Marquis des Baux, Baron de St. Lô, Compte de Carladès and seigneur of many another feudal fee, returned home from an African vacation to reassume his duties as absolute Prince of Monaco. His 2,245 subjects, who together with some 20,000 foreigners make up the population of Monaco, gave every sign of being glad to have him back. When the royal motor yacht Deo Juvante II glided past the harbor breakwater...