Word: bettye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remember Mama, Show Boat, Annie Get Your Gun. Highest acting honors were foreign and male: Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson for their Old Vic Oedipus and Falstaff. Nimblest female performance: Betty Field in Dream Girl.
Carters v. Kingfish. Hodding Carter never expected any medals for being a fighting Southern liberal editor. Says he: "You don't have to be brave any more." But more than once, he and his wife have been. Just after he and pretty Betty Werlein were married, Carter was fired...
Betty had complained to the OP A but somehow the OPA never got around to doing anything. Last week, boiling with rage at her landlady and the OPA both, she called the Chicago Tribune, told her story. A cameraman turned up to photo graph the basement.
The resulting story set Mrs. Stertz -and Chicago - on its ear. Hurriedly, Land lady Stertz dragged Betty's bed out of the tent, punched a Her aid-American photographer in the nose, set her brother to giving other newsmen the bum's rush. Fire Department and Health Department...
Call Me Mister has its faults. Like almost all youthful shows, it has more high spirits than skill; like almost all revues, more faltering skits than funny ones. Yet the show as a whole is as well-balanced as it is bright. It has fresh ideas, peppy dancing, agreeable tunes...