Word: benefactresses
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...running a deficit of $1,600 a week. Then the sun came out again. Last week Anne ("Nancy") Elaine Harrison, wife of the New Republic's publisher, fell heir to a third of the $35 million estate* left by her eccentric grandmother, Anita McCormick Elaine, International Harvester heiress, benefactress to the University of Chicago, Foundation for World Government and latter-day angel to such causes as the late Progressive Party and Manhattan's defunct pinko Daily Compass...
...MEANT MORE TO HUGO DEL CARRIL THAN THE SORROW OF HIS PEOPLE, the scurrilous piece ironically invoked the memory of his patroness Evita to attack him: "Here in Buenos Aires the people trem bling with cold stood in endless columns in the streets, silently paying tribute to their departed benefactress. There in Montevideo Hugo del Carril expressed his indifference to the national pain and man ifested the crudest monetary greed by continuing to sing from July 27 to Au gust 8 ..." Hushing the Truck. The story was not true: Del Carril had returned to Buenos Aires, visited Evita...
...Joey, Dancer Harold Lang-in a role that waved Gene Kelly to fame and filmdom-seems more squirt than heel. But he sings well, dances brilliantly, has a personality of his own. As Joey's benefactress, Vivienne Segal once again plays and sings with extraordinary ease, finish and charm. Mingling ugly facts with lovely tunes and abundant travesty, Pal Joey is a 20th century Beggar's Opera, which may conceivably be revived when South Pacific and the lost Atlantis...
...main victims of Eve's rise are just as keenly drawn. Her benefactress, written and played with some recognizable traces of Tallulah Bankhead, is volatile, egocentric and uninhibited, a great stage personality whose bitter anxiety over encroaching middle age blights both her career and her love affair with a younger director (Gary Merrill*). Eve's original well-meaning sponsor (Celeste Holm) is a hapless show-business phenomenon: as the non-professional wife of a successful playwright (Hugh Marlowe), she feels pangs of insecurity at having her husband dangled constantly before beautiful, designing females of the theater...
Michael Dennison is only acceptable in his part as a young English composer, married, who becomes enamoured of the Italian girl who succors him when he is shot down in the war. But the two women far outshine him. Valentine Corneas, as his benefactress, is believable, save when her lines do not allow; and Dulcie Gray, as his wife, does fairly by her necessarily third-rate part. No one, however, actually creates a character that could stand apart on its own strength...