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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honeys (by Roald Dahl) tells of despotic, irascible twin brothers (both played by Hume Cronyn) married to pleasant, long-suffering wives. It then tells how the wives (Jessica Tandy and Dorothy Stickney) decide that it would greatly improve matters if they disposed of their husbands. Disposing of them requires a stalled elevator, tainted oyster juice, a skull-bopping with a frozen leg of lamb, and a medicinal drink containing tiger's whiskers; but the ladies are very happily widowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...imagine, however, that playwright Roald Dahl is so unoriginal as to use arsenic for his murder weapon. Mary and Maggie Honey are far above such prosaity. When they dispatch their husbands it is by more subtle methods, like poisoning them with oysters or with the chopped-up whiskers of a tiger, or hitting them over the head with a frozen leg of lamb. This last method is particularly fortunate, for it subsequently allows the ladies-in a suitably festive spirit, and accompanied by two policemen-to cat the murder weapon...

Author: By Stephen R. Barneyy, | Title: The Honeys | 3/22/1955 | See Source »

...three visiting fellows here this year, Francis T. Bonner, of Brooklyn College, and Vaden W. Miles, of Wayne University, teach Natural Sciences. The third, Curtis Dahl, of Wheaton, is an instructor in Humanities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carnegie Will Extend Grant To University | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...district managers; the best man & wife team will get the vacant general managership. The three nervous couples show up: an ulcer-ridden, self-made man (Fred MacMurray), at odds with his wife (Lauren Bacall); a tough, reticent Texan (Van Heflin) and his full-bodied, social-climbing mate (Arlene Dahl); a family man from Kansas City (Cornel Wilde) and his too-enthusiastic wife (June Allyson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 18, 1954 | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

Married. Arlene Dahl, 29, red-haired cinema siren (Here Come the Girls) ; and Fernando Lamas, 37, Argentine-born Hollywood swashbuckler (Rose Marie); both for the second time (her first: movie Tarzan Lex Barker) ; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 5, 1954 | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

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