Word: beaumont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MARGARET KASER Beaumont, Texas...
Technically, these four plays are comedies, but, despite their relatively happy endings, the term is misleading. Actually, they are romantic tragi-comedies after the manner just popularized by Beaumont and Fletcher...
...soundly educated and widely informed, especially in the arts. His overriding passion is his work, but he is also a devoted husband and father. He met his wife Merula, an exactress, when they both played in Noah (1935)-she was a tiger, he a wolf. Son Michael, 16, attends Beaumont College near London. Though he makes few friends, Alec is intensely loyal to those he has-Actors John Gielgud, Peter Bull, Michael Gough, Actresses Kay Walsh, Cathleen Nesbitt, Irene Worth, Director Peter Glenville are among the closest. Alec is a generous man. Nothing is too much trouble or expense...
Hands on the Wheel. Only the rules had changed. Instead of appearing "in every scene possible," as her old scriptwriters had her do, Shirley merely introduced and narrated Madame le Prince de Beaumont's enduring moral fable, Beauty and the Beast-the beginning of a close-to-surefire series of fairy tales prepared for Temple and TV by Lawyer-turned-Producer Henry (Peter Pan) Jaffe...
Against Eroticism. To the Blue opposition the Duchesse rallied an impressive phalanx, including the Comtesse de Pange and onetime Actress Judith Cladel, 86. But the Simone forces seemed stronger; among others, the Red leader had lined up antediluvian Prix Fighter Saint-René Taillandier, Novelist Jeanne Galzy and Germaine Beaumont, a jury sitter of indeterminate vintage ("Age is fiction"). The week before the balloting, three lined-up Simone voters came down with the grippe. In silence, at the deciding luncheon, the embattled ladies spooned their bombe glacée. When the voting began, the committee was deadlocked, but under pressure...