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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Making her Broadway debut in Ladies in Retirement, tall, strong-featured, 38-year-old Actress Robson is known in the U. S. via Hollywood (Wuthering Heights, We Are Not Alone), One of England's leading serious actresses, she has played older parts since youth, has probably depicted as many queens-Queen Elizabeth, Empress Elizabeth, Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's Katharine-as any other living actress. With Robert Donat, she worked hard in a little shoestring theatre at Cambridge; with Charles Laughton she played for a season at London's Old Vic. When Ladies in Retirement closes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New & Old Plays in Manhattan | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...riding master, a onetime Portuguese bullfighter named Ruy Da Camara, taught her the art of the rejoneador-at first with calves, then with more & more ferocious bulls. At 14, she gave an exhibition of equestrian bullfighting at a charity horse show at Lima. At 15, she made her debut-not in society but in a professional bull ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wonder Girl Bullfighter | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

This week, before an opening-night audience glittering with Cabinet members, Ambassadors, Senators, Washington Society folk, Actress Rainer made her U. S. stage debut. Her role was the fattest and most formidable, for a woman, in the modern repertory-one which had taxed Dame Sybil Thorndike, Winifred Lenihan, Katharine Cornell. It overtaxed Actress Rainer. Frail and flowerlike, her straight dark hair falling about her face, she was the most appealing of all Saint Joans, and the feeblest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Thank Offering | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Mickey was called Sonny and at seven months Sonny could walk around backstage. At one year he could already say: "I'm not going to do that." He was ready to make his debut. He did so by interrupting a serious duet of Sid Gold and Babe Latour. Dressed in his backstage jeans, Mickey brought down the house by ambling out from the wings in the middle of their act and piping Pal of My Cradle Days. After that first performance Sonny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Success Story | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...then that the idea of bringing her to Cambridge originated, this time in the mind of a New York Warner Brothers press agent, who hot-footed it up to Cambridge to look over the ground and plan for the floodlights and grandstands which would accompany Miss Sheridan's debut in Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Authorities Balk at Oomph Girl Premiere at U. T. | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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