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Under Elia Kazan's (The Skin of Our Teeth, Jacobowsky and the Colonel) able direction, a good cast works hard and well. Topping it, in the role of the Senator's younger daughter, is Stage Designer Norman Bel Geddes' charming, 22-year-old daughter Barbara. With only a brief career of small parts behind her, she may well stand out as the best ingenue of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 8, 1945 | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

Period! In Cleveland, Robert Harris faced the court for sentence on a drunken driving charge, fainted dead away when he heard, "$100 and costs, to be executed by July 2." Carried Away. In Chicago, Lester Bel grade stood in line two hours for two steaks and entrusted the package to his trained cocker spaniel, a faithful package-bearer for the past five years. Next day he was still waiting anxiously for the missing dog to come home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 18, 1945 | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

Divorced. Leland Stanford ("Larry'') MacPhail, 55, baseball's bleacher-lunged showman, now boss of the New York Yankees ; by Inez Thompson MacPhail, 55; after 34 years of marriage, five of separation; in Bel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 14, 1945 | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

Barbara Hutton Grant, five-&-dime heiress, surprise-partied her newlywed personal maid and chauffeur at her Bel-Air, Calif, estate with a guest list of 50 chefs, valets, butlers, maids. Cinemactor Gary Grant, the hostess' estranged husband, sent his valet with a check for the happy couple. Hit of the evening-aside from the mistress' serving-was the little performance of sleight-of-hand tricks by Edwards, butler to Lady Mendl. "Miss Hutton did practically everything but wash the dishes," observed one breathless, gratified guest. The party over, "Miss Hutton" and her house guest, the Baroness de Rothschild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 16, 1945 | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

Born. To Barbara Bel Geddes Schreuer, 22, pretty actress daughter of future-gazing Designer Norman Bel Geddes; and Carl Schreuer, 26, marine electrical engineer: their first child, a girl; in Manhattan. Name: Susan. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: MILESTONES | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

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