Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sale. In Chicago, a salesman made a pass at 104-lb. Prudence Tolkach, an amateur wrestler's daughter, who threw him with a full nelson, grabbed him in a hammer lock and beat him against'the floor, tossed him again with a body slam, conked him with a clock as he fled for his life...
...other hand, Charles Dorning, the quondam Captain of the Pinafore, let many an opportunity of building the Captain into a sympathetic and believable character slip by, although his singing, too, was superb. The one more unfortunate bit of casting was that of Helen Roberts as Josephine, daughter to the Captain, beloved of Ralph Rackstraw, but promised to Sir Joseph Porter. Miss Roberts possesses a fine set of high notes, but she all to frequently let her coloratura get away from her and succeeded in casting her words into some oblivion above the proscenium...
...After gossip columnists haughtily cried "Bad taste!" Ciro's nightclub in Hollywood banned Comic Peter Lind Hayes's newest skit. Hayes and his wife had been imitating President Truman and daughter Margaret. Hayes played the Missouri Waltz and pretended to sell neckties. His wife kept crying, "You're living in the past!" Said Hayes, answering his critics: "We tried it at the hardware convention in Cincinnati and they kept coming back night after night...
Married. Paul Mellon, 40, onetime banker, horse breeder who races a stable of steeplechasers, son of Aluminum Tycoon Andrew W. Mellon; and Rachel ("Bunny") Lambert Lloyd, 37, daughter of drug (Listerine) and razor-blade (Gillette) Tycoon Gerard Barnes Lambert; each for the second time; in Manhattan...
...played by Henry Fonda) tries to impose spit & polish on a begallused garrison in the Far West. After leading a suicidal charge against the local Indians, he is posthumously adored as a hero-except by the men (John Wayne, et al.) who had to carry out his orders. His daughter, a stock Pert Chit by the name of Philadelphia Thursday (Shirley Temple), meanwhile romances with a young officer (played, in appropriate magazine-illustration style, by Miss Temple's real-life husband, John Agar...