Word: beatonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unpopular with the rest. Friend of writers and critics like Cyril (Enemies of Promise) Connolly and Peter Quennell, able to talk to them in their own jargon, yet without convincing anyone of her profundity. As flip, smartly turned out professional journalist, got to know Orson Welles, Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton (who lent her a cottage on his Wiltshire grounds). Although needing no introduction to high society, she was befriended by the Duff Coopers, Lord David Cecil and Lord Salisbury, good friend of Eden...
...farcical, half-melodramatic vaudeville, and its people finally go home less changed themselves than as though changes of character awaited them there. There is less a failure of logic than of magic, which is the more pronounced since the production-in Virgil Thomson's atmospheric music and Cecil Beaton's almost oppressively charming sets-so much stresses the fairy-tale note...
...lyric beauty in much of the dialogue, however, cannot be lost. One outstanding merit of the present production is Mildred Natwick's perceptive interpretation of Dolly Talbo, while Georgia Burke, as Catherine the cook, is consistently amusing in her role of wry observer of the extraordinary proceedings. Finally Cecil Beaton's scenery, particularly the forest setting, is extra-ordinarily effective...
...York City Ballet, came out of the wings and made a little hands-across-the-sea speech. Picnic at Tintagel, he explained, is something very special. It is not only an all-English affair, with choreography by Frederick Ashton of Sadler's Wells, scenery and costumes by Cecil Beaton and music by Sir Arnold Bax. It might even be called "the first fruits of the new Elizabethan...
Richards was beaton out of first place by James Grogan of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Grogan has been runner-up to Button in 11 major skating contests. Northwestern freshman Hayes Alan Jonkins took third place. There were three other competitors in the men's division...