Word: booth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hedda was hardly out of bed Thursday morning when aristocratic Publisher McCormick called. Breathlessly, she sounded the tocsin around town. A few calls lined up Loretta Young and others for lunch at Romanoff's (front booth). Others alerted the 20th Century-Fox lot. Still others set RKO-Pathe and the homes of Merle Oberon (cocktails) and Sam Goldwyn (dinner) in motion. At dinner, Mrs. Goldwyn's innocent remark, "Why, you're just as comfortable as an old shoe," caused the Colonel to start. Due to a luggage mixup, he was wearing brown shoes with his tuxedo...
Realizing, perhaps, that his theme wasn't quite capable of sustaining "Heartsong" through an entire evening, Mr. Laurents was wise enough to write in a part for Shirley Booth, a competent comedienne from Hartford. When she was permitted to stick to her element, Miss Booth, who can make almost any line seem funny, managed to carry the play. But when she was obliged to join in with the rest of the cast in thrashing out the problems of marriage, Miss Booth sank to the same level of purpose-lessness that here colleagues and the author had established...
Died. Julian Street, 67, novelist (Rita Coventry) and short-story writer, epicure (Where Paris Dines), close friend and collaborator (Country Cousin) of the late Booth Tarkington; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Lakeville, Conn...
Full cooperation was given by the management of the University Theatre in screening the film, and the lobby booth was manned by AVC members of both chapters as well as by volunteers from the Radcliffe League for Democracy...
Acting together with the Cambridge unit of AVC, the 800-man group will sponsor a housing booth in the lobby of the University Theatre in conjunction with the showing of a special AVC film on veterans' housing needs. Arrangements are being completed for the manning of the lobby registration center by both Radcliffe and Harvard AVC members. Complete information will be available there for Cambridge home-owners who contemplate remodelling their dwellings to provide additional living units...