Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Photographer Gravneek quietly started shooting, only now & then asking Lisa to turn a bit this way or that. Thirty minutes and 16 camera clicks later, it was all over...
Cinemactress Ginger Rogers, 38, decided to divorce third husband Jack Briggs, 29, onetime movie bit player, after 6½ years of marriage. Not only did he "refuse to come home at a decent hour like a good husband should," Ginger complained, but he never even produced "a good, solid excuse...
Negligible Bit. The hardest wallops came in the Sunday Times from a critic Britons have heard for 45 years. Gruff old (80) Ernest Newman first wanted to know "What is a festival's work?" Is its virtue, he asked, "a quality inherent in it" or does its virtue come "merely from the fact that on a particular day [a piece] is performed some hundreds of miles from where we live...
...performance of Rossini's Semiramide Overture by the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir John Barbirolli. "No really musical person," groused Newman, "would leave his comfortable home . . . specifically to hear this . . . But bring, at great expense, a German orchestra all the way from Berlin to play this negligible bit of Italian music in the capital of Scotland, and an English conductor all the way from Manchester to conduct it, and apparently it becomes, by some magical transformation . . . a 'festival' work and we trudge all the way to Edinburgh to hear it." In short, wrote he, "the only justification possible...
...there was Lisa invitingly recumbent in a black lace and taffeta ensemble (by Janet Taylor); there was Lisa wistfully bored in tulle, for McCallum stockings ("You just know she wears them"). Thin, slightly bony, gowned and groomed with superhuman perfection, she was undeniably beautiful, but in her pictures a bit distant and ethereal, and not altogether real...