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Actress Elsa Lanchester, playing a nightclub date at Manhattan's Blue Angel, shuddered to recall some of her movie roles. "I was a loathsome bearded lady in The Big Top, a resurrected corpse in The Bride of Frankenstein, and I'll play the wicked stepmother in Cinderella," said Elsa in a frightened voice. "I've played so many repulsive characters that I sometimes have to stop and check to make sure that I have arms and legs and am quite normally human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 3, 1954 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

Lucky Me (Warner) is what is left of the little old Cinderella story when WarnerColor. CinemaScope, stereophonic sound, three scriptwriters, two songsmiths and $2,000,000 are through with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...Bradley, disappointment was no stranger. The Braves reached the final of both the National Collegiate and National Invitation tournaments in 1950, only to lose in both to C.C.N.Y.'s "Cinderella Team." Later, as it turned out, both teams were dishonored by the fix scandals. Last season, after a Bradley Boosters Club had been too free with its money favors to Bradley players, the Braves were suspended from tournament play by the N.C.A.A. La Salle, on the other hand, won college basketball's top trophy the very first time it had ever qualified for the tournament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Upsetters Upset | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

Every now and then one of these blue laws rears up, managing always to curtail the most wholesome of activities. Saturday night's tied-score hockey game was the latest victim of the antique ruling.s When the clock had struck twelve, the Cinderella law hustled both teams out of the arena, presumably wary of the myth that coaches turn back into pumpkins. In this way, the hours from Saturday midnight to Sunday noon are kept free from all vice, including overtime in sports events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out of the Blue | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...million combination fair and amusement park for Los Angeles. To be called Disneyland, the project will cover 152 acres, will show the world of the past, the world of the future, and the. world of fantasy, with sets from such Disney movies as Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio and Cinderella. Rides for the kiddies will include a 40 ft. rocket, supposedly giving the sensation of space travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

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